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#122 Indie Life & The Future of Work - Venkatesh Rao

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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Why Is Big Consulting So Important?

Big consulting came out of 1970s Japanese competition the Wallis shots era and companies have to get out from being like dull unimaginative just plow along in a straight line. BCJ Bain Mackenzie Howard business school for about 15 20 years they were doing some serious real hard thinking, he says. He thinks big consulting was valuable during its heyday because it really leveled up the IQ of the business world by about I would say 20 to 30 IQ points. Then of course it got institutionalized captured cronies all the problems UNF talked about it's also in both our books  I think it's like the end of a cycle and the business world is honestly getting stupider again

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