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“Consultancies offer their services at a discount only to end up giving advice that favours their clients”

The Big Con

How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies

Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington Allen Lane, £25

Consultants have been behind some of the biggest scandals of recent years, from the collapse of Enron at the turn of the millennium to the

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