دانلود کتاب باهم بزرگ – چگونه صنعت مشاوره کسب و کار ما را تضعیف می کند

To overcome the great challenges of our time—from pandemics to the climate crisis—requires ambition and prowess. All types of organizations in our economies must be guided by experience and technical knowledge, and people with project management skills. Businesses, governments and organizations from civil society with these capabilities can then work together to meet our collective social, economic and environmental needs. And yet this does not describe the world we live in. Many governments have stopped investing in their own capacity and capabilities, and because they fear failure they do not take risks. Many businesses have shirked responsibility for change, and are focused on earning short-term profits through easy, unproductive strategies, such as buying back their own shares to boost stock prices, or not paying workers their fair share. Bad governance in both business and the state has over the last half century caused short-termism to overshadow investments needed for progress. These trends have depleted organizations of knowledge, skills and vision. And one group of actors has ridden the wave of this form of capitalism, and the underlying depletion of capabilities, earning huge sums of money in the process: the consulting industry. Consulting companies, such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Bain & Company (often referred to as the “Big Three” strategy firms) and PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY (the “Big Four” accountancies), are hired by governments, businesses and other organizations to perform different types of tasks on their behalf. When consultancies are hired by businesses, the tasks they are given sometimes relate to corporate strategy, sometimes to the management and execution of a specific project and sometimes to a particular capacity such as IT or financial planning. Governments often contract consultancies to help deliver critical functions, from the development of climate adaptation strategies to the rollout of vaccination programs and the commissioning of welfare services.