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"Too Much Consulting?" (Overcoming Bias)
"The puzzle is why firms pay huge sums to big name consulting firms, when their advice comes from kids fresh out of college, who spend only a few months studying an industry they previous knew nothing about. How could such quick-made advice from ignorant recent grads be worth millions? Why don’t firms just ask their own internal recent college grads?
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My guess is that most intellectuals underestimate just how dysfunctional most firms are. Firms often have big obvious misallocations of resources, where lots of folks in the firm know about the problems and workable solutions. The main issue is that many highest status folks in the firm resist such changes, as they correctly see that their status will be lowered if they embrace such solutions."

Possibly the only thing I've read of Robin Hanson's, in the past year, that I thought, "Yeah, that's about right."
business  consulting  signaling  status  robin-hanson 
february 2012 by arthegall

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