re: Management Consulting

My experience with them had me thinking upper management brought them in to specifically target a couple of people that upper management wanted to remove.

I had one run in with McKinsey during my career. They were embarrassingly stupid.

I worked as a management consultant for a year before getting laid off in 2008. It was a grind but enjoyable. I spent four months overseas, and on the weekends I saw things I could not have imagined.....it was wild!

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I believe that we would have figured out every single thing that they have taught. The question is much longer would it have taken us to “figure things out” and how much would our mistakes have cost us

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I figured this out my first six months of consulting. However, I also realized that part of my job was to provide the handful of people that actually knew what was going on cover, because they could say, "the guy from Big 4 said other clients fixed the problem the same way we've proposed."

I always presumed that the people that had worked at whatever lubricant manufacturer/cloud provider/etc had more experience in their business than I did, and I was there to guide them, not tell them what to do. Except when I found dumb shite like admin passwords for the entire financial systems of countries that hadn't been changed for over a decade, because no one had the balls to tell some Exchequer of Accounts for a tiny country to get off their asses and get with the program.

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6. Ask “Will this scale?” no matter what it is

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