Not just McKinsey: How governments learned to stop worrying and love consultants
Cal Bricker, PhD, has worked in senior positions in the Ontario public sector as well as with private-sector companies in the waste and alcoholic beverage industries.
In Canada, I expect that what puzzles taxpayers most is that at the same time as business consultants consolidate their beachhead, the size of the public service continues to grow in lockstep. There are three components of the contemporary political/public service mindset that drive the use of business consultants.
Third, this is where Zeno’s paradox comes in. Zeno was the pre-Socratic philosopher thought to be behind a series of paradoxes that show that some goals can never be achieved, often because the required steps are endless. In Zeno’s world, the hare never catches the tortoise. This is the murky territory where the “strategic’ business consultant thrives.
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