[rwaksmunski]

Well, when you have a bad idea you want to implement but don't want to take responsibility for it, you keep on hiring consultants until you hear what you want to hear. Quality of the consulting is irrelevant and interns or AI will do just fine. When the project inevitably implodes, you blame the consultant. Your own employees will give you advice on what's best for the company, not necessary what's best for you so you stand on their neck until they quiet down and learn their place. By the time anyone figures out what happened you already moved on with outstanding resume bullet point.

[lnsru]

Exactly. These are paid villains to craft masterplan for multiple layoff rounds. Because the good and loving CEO loves everybody in his kingdom and can’t hurt anyone. The paid consultants are the evil who laid those nice people off. The consultants are the part of modern faceless mega corporations to outsource decision making. The CEO is not liable for any decisions nowadays.

[thmsths]

And yet they still get paid as if they were...

[fragmede]

it's a trope at this point.

I'm the CEO and I don't really like it when the annoying guy down the hall tells me what to do, so I'm gonna spend $50,000 and have a team come in and interview everybody and then they'll tell me the same thing the annoying guy said, for years, but because they're outside consultants, I'll listen to them when they say it.

[gred]

> they'll tell me the same thing the annoying guy said, for years, but because they're outside consultants, I'll listen to them when they say it

A tale as old as time:

> Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. [...] Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home." He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. He was amazed at their lack of faith. (Mark 6:1-6)

[heisenbit]

If your doctor suggests to take out your kidney would you seek a second option? There is a lot of B.S. but there are also cases where there has been value provided.

[AznHisoka]

>> you keep on hiring consultants until you hear what you want to hear.

Sounds like a job that AI easily replaces

[xinu2020]

Except for the accountability part. That's the main feature of consulting.