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by Spooky23 2745 days ago
The existence of companies like Accenture stands as a strong counter-argument. You can fail for a long time before going out of business.

If you’ve been in any kind of business where you have a view of how the business works, you’ll find that nobody has a monopoly on incompetence.

I have worked in Fortune 100, late startup, local and state government. All had remarkably dumb practices. The startups were the most corrupt and wasteful, local government was the most limited in capability. Comparing big gov to big Corp, the workers are much better in the gov and the leaders are better in Corp.