How consulting corporations are influencing governments around the world | Business Beyond

From designing hospitals and prisons to drawing up climate change strategies, consultants are carving out more and more space in the public sector. And governments are spending billions in tax dollars on them. But the more governments outsource to consultants, the more dependent they become. In this episode of Business Beyond, we look at how consultants can harm the public sector.

#consulting #capitalism #neoliberalism

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:53 Who are consultants?
03:11 History of consulting
06:25 Prison price cuts
08:57 Aiding autocrats
13:52 The hospital failure
19:00 Greenwashing
22:20 Conclusion

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[mattpeterman]

You also forgot to mention. In Australia they contracted to PWC and what was occurring was that they on the 1 hand advised the government on new tax reforms to go after big business who avoid tax. And at the same time consulted those same businesses how to get around those same laws. Massive conflict of interest. They then got banned for years. Others came close to getting banned too. It caused massive outrage.

[alexgray]

Read - The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies by By Mariana Mazzucato. The book was published on February 23, 2023.

[subhasisghosh]

And most of the consultancies are now sacking their staff. Clearly, they did not get their projections of business correctly.

[stanleykubrick]

This is a sector which learned and honed lessons from Machiavelli and Ed Bernays very well

[graemesydney]

Want a contract? - Write patron pleasing reports - 'he who pays the piper calls the tune'.

[Kuda.Zim]

Very timely intervention on this important topic, it has just given more ways to look at this shady business of Consultancy.

[aeromtb]

i remember considering Anderson in the late 90s out of engineering school for the money, but didnt want to wear a suit nor consult without experience.

[h.nguyen]

everyone that works at a hospital know's we speak another language the public might not understand. For a consulting firm to go into a hospital and change the way it functions is astonishing.

[zolisamaine]

For as long as human can't live in unity, organizations will be our middle man with the power of both worlds. ⚖

[universeslap]

Thank you for this docu. I appreciate it dearly❤️

[PauloMagalhaesE]

@DW Wrong picture at 10’21’.The picture attributed to Ahmad in the McKinsey slide is an old picture of Brazilian president Lula.

[supersmart]

You should read the book McKinsey way...its just brutal.

[alexandreschiller]

At 10:17, an image from a McKinsey report is presented, showing three supposed enemies of Saudi Arabia. However, the last image does not appear to be Ahmad, but rather Brazil’s President, Lula.

[WellbeingToPeace]

Seems an ethics policy which protects consultancies from conflicts of interest, exposure to politically driven or divisive interests, election interference etc, based on strongly internalized values, vision and mission, might be the need of the hour.

A definition of ethical leadership was already drafted by Mc Kinsey, which is brilliant, and if they demand mutual adherence to that definition from their clients, including Governments, they would surely move the needle for our world to become more honest, decent, and value driven💜🙏🕊️

[soumimukherjee]

It’s all about control..give a chance to anyone in this video to join these orgs for a hefty amount and they will join…it’s just that competitors are building narratives against them and using the press for it

[garanglester]

I think with the volumes of evidence that exists; Corporations are already ruling the world. The one thing that the corporatocracy was not doing yet is the very job of governing. Now through the outsourcing of government policy to big consulting corporations, even governing is now done by corporations. Why should we continue to elect governments if private business firm will end up doing the governing for them?

[edisonching]

If you like to con people and to insult people.. you consult.

[Mogul_philosopher]

Something to understand. Management employees are high achievers and generally smarter. Government employees at times just do the bare minimum

[nukiolbartes]

Its not like government not aware of the illusion. It is just too comfortable.

[alnash]

Why using trump in the thumbnail, why not german chancellor schroeder, who in fact was in a payroll frim Gazprom