The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Rosie Collington, Mariana Mazzucato

The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies

Rosie Collington, Mariana Mazzucato

338 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction business economics politics challenging informative medium-paced
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 The 'Big Con' describes the confidence trick the consulting industry performs in contracts with hollowed-out and risk-averse governments and shareholder value-maximizing firms. It grew from the 1980s and 1990s in the wake of reforms by both the n...

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