[chaosbolt]

Companies like BCG and McKinsey are mostly about liability, as a CEO you call them, pay them the big bucks, have them make up plans and strategies, if it works out you get the credit, if it doesn't then well "we worked tightly with experts from McKinsey, etc. so the blame isn't on me"

[fragmede]

The frustrating one is when you've been telling management something for months (if not years), and the consultant comes in, and their report says what you been saying, and only then does the company finally do what you've been saying all along! Coulda saved the company 5-figures just listening to me. sigh politics.

[refurb]

Not sure why this would frustrate you.

People have ideas all the time internally. I'm going to assume the idea you had was one of many.

The issue is getting the real decision makers to buy into it. They aren't going to take the word of someone who works in some division. They want some rigor to it.

Bringing in someone who isn't tainted by the groupthink of the company, can actually take a sober view of the situation, has puts some weight to the recommendation.

[adeelk93]

Why is that frustrating? I find it validating

[vsareto]

It's frustrating because you don't get money or credit for the idea.

[simonmesmith]

Yeah, but I wonder if it’s even more powerful to say, “we asked the world’s most powerful AI and it recommended that we lay off 20% of our staff, while ensuring we treated them all fairly.”

[chaosbolt]

That's probably what they say to each other... Just looking at the garbage produced by movie studios recently you can't not ask yourself if the scripts are AI generated... And that's just the scripts let alone those crazy budgets that still produce movies that look like N64 games.