Consultant’s reverie

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“If you make yourself really small, you can externalise nearly everything.”

Privatisation and outsourcing are really articulations of the same idea: that organisations should get out of all activities that are purely incidental to their core activity.

See also

• The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Marina Mazzucato