re: AI's next victim: Mgmt Consulting - McKinsey offering staff 9 months full pay to leave

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That sounds great, but when every single productive pair of boots on the ground sees everything they do as a destructive measure, there's certainly a problem.

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I hear you. I was on the business end of one of those “destructive measures” early in my career and it’s a kick in the groin.

But they have to happen. Changes in organizations in a capitalist system sometimes have to be destructive to make way for something better. Take Apple’s self-driving car program. They knew it was going nowhere so they had to trash it and let a bunch of really smart, hardworking people go. The alternative is to keep bleeding money and that’s no good for anyone.

Whether it’s consultants or internal leadership, changes have to happen or the organization will stagnate and die.