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[quote=Anonymous]"Nobody gets fired for buying IBM." You're a C-level executive who isn't meeting targets? Hire McKinsey. They generate ideas and/or tell you what you want to hear -- it doesn't really matter which -- and you do it. Either it works or it doesn't. But you don't get fired, because you used McKinsey. Either they helped, and you keep your job because you hired them, or they didn't, and you keep your job because hey, you tried the best in the business. In all honesty, there are probably inflection points where that kind of consultant does make sense. Like, two airlines of equal size merge. In-house, neither airline is going to have people whose jobs are analyzing redundancies and comparing costs to decide which HQ to axe and which people to move around and which ones to let go of. So in that kind of case, hiring a bunch of consultants to come in and do it maybe makes some sense. But the "idea generation" idea is silly.[/quote]
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