My struggling hometown hired a pricey consultant to try and increase business in the historic downtown area. The consultant’s advice? Start promoting it as “uptown” instead of “downtown.” So they put up all this signage cheering UPtown! The area is still struggling many years later.
My company did that when we got a new CEO. The pricey consultants said to layoff 1500 employees and move the headquarters to a new city. Coincidentally that new city is where the CEO is from. Hmmmm
Been there, suffered that. There are two ways that game is played. One is as above the expensive consultants reporting at $10000/page what anyone in the company could have told them. The other trick, which can be even more expensive, is to replace all the top management (CEO/COO/CFO/etc) in one swell foop (sic). Seen that too.
The company that I worked for (before I retired), hired a consultant. He told management that they could hire inexperienced people off the street to do our jobs. (However, it took years of training to do our jobs. We designed communication equipment). Fortunately, management did not follow his suggestion.
Breadboard over 5 years ago
But you just drove up the costs Mr. Dingleberry ! ;-)
Pedmar Premium Member over 5 years ago
My struggling hometown hired a pricey consultant to try and increase business in the historic downtown area. The consultant’s advice? Start promoting it as “uptown” instead of “downtown.” So they put up all this signage cheering UPtown! The area is still struggling many years later.
William Bednar Premium Member over 5 years ago
Yeah, a “pricey” consultant who will give me a 20% kickback.
Dan Miller over 5 years ago
My company did that when we got a new CEO. The pricey consultants said to layoff 1500 employees and move the headquarters to a new city. Coincidentally that new city is where the CEO is from. Hmmmm
Peam Premium Member over 5 years ago
Been there, suffered that. There are two ways that game is played. One is as above the expensive consultants reporting at $10000/page what anyone in the company could have told them. The other trick, which can be even more expensive, is to replace all the top management (CEO/COO/CFO/etc) in one swell foop (sic). Seen that too.
RonnieAThompson Premium Member over 5 years ago
The company that I worked for (before I retired), hired a consultant. He told management that they could hire inexperienced people off the street to do our jobs. (However, it took years of training to do our jobs. We designed communication equipment). Fortunately, management did not follow his suggestion.