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Efficiency consultant "experts" advise firing the wrong employee cost the company their biggest account: 'Business went from $200k to zero'

A surprising amount of experts and analysts get hired to improve the efficiency of businesses that they know nothing about, putting more effort into marketing themselves and trying to ensure corporate clients than into ensuring their analysis offers any actual value—or that their statistics hold any actual significance. At the end of the day, all they care about is that they're able to give the client some result, a result that the manager who hired them is going to take at face value since they don't understand it anyway. Besides these managers probably couldn't care less, they've got budgets to spend and reports to write and even if it's all just a big sham, they're covering all their bases—besides it's probably their friend's or cousin's "business improvement consultancy" they're hiring anyways. 

The worst case scenario for you, the low-level employee, is that your name or position comes up in one of these bogus reports, pointing at—no, scapegoating—you as the problem. IF this happens you might find yourself on the chopping block and not ever know why, even if you were actually one of the organization's most productive workers, just not according to the numbers they were looking at.

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Posted by Brad Dickson
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