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A review by linehdk
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington
3.0
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for content (the research and the conclusions)
⭐️⭐️ for reading experience, because:
Too many cases with too many insignificant details.
Too much redundancy.
- Meaning: You’re left with a feeling of authors beating a dead horse when you (finally) find yourself more than half way through the book.
Too many citations.
Too many way too long sentences.
- Meaning: Difficult and tiring to read.
Just a quick citation of a random long sentence (see what I did there?):
“Commodified ‘solutions’ – a term used in the consulting industry to describe the frameworks, metrics and services on offer – can be influential branding and marketing tools in consulting; but in companies that adopt them, they can have the consequence that managers ‘flit from theory to theory’, failing to settle on one structure or strategy long enough to foster the development of capabilities before another is introduced."
⭐️⭐️ for reading experience, because:
Too many cases with too many insignificant details.
Too much redundancy.
- Meaning: You’re left with a feeling of authors beating a dead horse when you (finally) find yourself more than half way through the book.
Too many citations.
Too many way too long sentences.
- Meaning: Difficult and tiring to read.
Just a quick citation of a random long sentence (see what I did there?):
“Commodified ‘solutions’ – a term used in the consulting industry to describe the frameworks, metrics and services on offer – can be influential branding and marketing tools in consulting; but in companies that adopt them, they can have the consequence that managers ‘flit from theory to theory’, failing to settle on one structure or strategy long enough to foster the development of capabilities before another is introduced."