Consultants Alert

The Free Press: Joe Nocera on "The Consulting Crash is Coming!"

Which is probably true and long overdue.

Those of us who are in small firms get paid far less than the mega-firms, but we're a much smaller target.

We also give more bang for the buck.

Years ago, Avis CEO Robert Townsend nailed it with his take on management consultants:

"The effective ones are the one-man shows. The institutional ones are disastrous. They waste time, cost money, demoralize and distract your best people, and don't solve problems. They are people who borrow your watch to tell you what time it is and then walk off with it."

Cautionary note: Any large firm is likely to have stars as well as toads and weasels. Determine which type you're dealing with.

Truck Driver and Family

 

Wild Workplaces!

Here is my Substack evidence that every workplace is a stage.

[Photo by Headway at Unsplash]

For Your Summer Vacation Plans

 

Losing the Libraries

 Mitigating Chaos points to an article on the decline of libraries that is spot-on.

I know of at least one library I no longer frequent because it has become the equivalent of a homeless shelter/panhandler hang-out.

Should there be shelters? Absolutely. 

And there should be libraries.

Each has a primary role.

First Paragraph

 This one is over a woman, Kubu thought, watching the silent faces around the body.

- From "An Issue of Women and Money" in Detective Kubu Investigates by Michael Stanley

The Battle for The Soul of America

 

Why AM Radio Will Never Die

James Lileks makes the case for AM radio.

[Photo by Maximilian Hofer at Unsplash]

Keep an Eye on Hollywood

 

My Substack is up: Will Human-Like Actors Replace Real Ones?

[Photo by Barry Weatherall at Unsplash]

The Clash Within Civilizations

Under the prior regime, the West’s self-hatred had reached a point of self-cancellation. According to the vast international network of government bureaucrats, media, and nonprofits, Western countries have no right to control who comes across their borders from allegedly oppressed lands. Irreversible demographic and cultural change is not a byproduct of open borders; it is their goal.

Read all of Heather Mac Donald's speech in The New Criterion.