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What do management consultants do?

The LRB Podcast

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The Cost-Benefit Analysis That Management Consultants Engage In

If the aim of efficiency means getting rid of workers, disempowering workers, then it's not very surprising that you make these efficiency savings and workers end up dying. In those kinds of instances, I think efficiency ends up being much more important than almost anything else. And we see actually elements of this in during the COVID pandemic,. where you see that supply chains that have been taught and tightened to become efficient are extremely fragile.

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