Management Consultants

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Sutherland: Tech-Driven Management Optimizes for Metrics Distant from Customer Needs
“When you allow tech bros too much power over decision-making, along with their running dog lackeys in kind of management consultancy, You're optimizing for something which may be very, very distant from what your real-world customers really care about.”
Rory Sutherland Dec 9, 2025 ▶ 42:30 How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
20VC Opinion
Storonsky: Hiring management consultants proves your internal employees are incompetent
“Because if you look at all these management consultants, they come to you with a nice presentation explaining how to get things done. A reality here is when you start hiring management consultants to help you run the company, that means your employees are not …”
Nik Storonsky Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 4:15 Nik Storonsky, Revolut Founder: What Revolut Needs to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation | E1233 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Opinion
Horowitz: Management books ignore wartime leadership because they study peaceful success
“A lot of it comes from, you know, so many of these books were written by management consultants talking about the most successful companies at the height of their power. They were in peacetime.”
Ben Horowitz Jul 29, 2017 ▶ 24:35 On Career Moves and Business Leadership

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