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Oh the irony… The big consultancies have finally said it out loud!
(But saying it doesn’t mean they know how to do it) You can always tell when a message is starting to land. Not because it’s declared boldly, but because it begins to slip…
Who’s Switching The Lights On?
Most Businesses Would Rather Lose a Million Pound Quietly Than Spend Fifty Grand Loudly I came across a short video from Rory Sutherland recently that hit a nerve. One of those deceptively simple…
Knowledge Is Not Power!
“Knowledge is power.” It’s one of those phrases that gets repeated so often it slips by unquestioned. But it’s wrong. Knowledge—on its own—does nothing. It just sits there. Static. Inert. Waiting. The real…
When none of the usual boxes fit…
“So what is it you actually do?” A fair question.Especially when you don’t fit neatly into the usual boxes. Not consultancy.Not recruitment.Not interim. And yet — we’re often called in after one of…
The Great Consulting Farce: Part Two
The Transformation Illusion Management consultancies have perfected the art of selling transformation. It’s a billion-pound industry built on promises of reinvention, disruption, and bold new futures. And yet, year after year, study after…
The Great Consulting Farce:
How the Big Firms Sell Illusions and Bill for Failure For decades, the world’s largest management consultancies—McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte, and the rest of the usual suspects—have positioned themselves as indispensable to corporate…