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[–] 176 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Well, consulting is often used because they need an answer to a question. That may be open-ended like:

"What moves should we make to expand our business?"

But other times they just want confirmation:

"Should we merge with Discovery?" (Sure, I guess. Here are some reasons you could. cha-ching)

"Should we split with Discovery?" (Sure, I guess. Here are some reasons you could. cha-ching)

Other times they just need to pay people to give them excuses to lay off people. McKinsey's always available for that.

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  • [–] 120 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    When Chipotle got a new CEO (Brian Niccol, who has since become the Starbucks CEO) a few years back, they were headquartered in Denver. But the CEO lived in Newport Beach. So they brought in a consulting management firm to examine where the best place in the country was for them to have their corporate headquarters.

    After weeks of analysis - surprise, surprise - they determined that the best place they could possibly have a corporate headquarters was in Newport Beach, where the CEO lived.

    So they fired most of their corporate workers and moved the office to be closer to the CEOs house.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    “Sorry we don’t do remote work and you’ll have to come into the office.”

    “Counterpoint: …”

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Starbucks has a mandatory 3 day a week RTO policy, but this same CEO did not relocate from Newport beach to Seattle.

    Instead, he has the corporate private jet fly him 2000 miles round trip every week.

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