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Consulting Ethics Concern, Once Again

The Consultants Peer Group

Lack of consulting ethics once again. Over the past week both NPR and Wall Street Journal have reviewed the book, The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies , by authors Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington in which they skewer the consulting industry.

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Five Ways to Raise your Game in Consulting

The Consultants Peer Group

Over a short two-day span several consulting related articles caught my attention. First, Confessions of a Whistleblower by Garrison Lovely highlighted several cultural problems at the consulting firm, McKinsey. First, the obvious, they are about my profession, management consulting. But not consultants.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” It sought to make things better. Ehrhart, K.,

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Here’s what to think about When Creating a Forward-Looking ESG Strategy

Brimstone Consulting

Stakeholders want to know how organizations are affecting the environment, how treat and interact with their employees, clients and communities, and if they conduct their business ethically. The post Here’s what to think about When Creating a Forward-Looking ESG Strategy appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC.

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3 Steps Toward Getting Your Workforce Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Right

Organizational Talent Consulting

There is a growing interest and concern with ethics associated with AI models. Every AI-related skill category grew in 2022, with Python being the most requested AI skill. A recent global survey revealed that only 35% of respondents in the US agree that products and services using AI have more benefits than drawbacks. and Yee, L.

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Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: What You Need to Know

Epicflow

McKinsey consultancy suggests that the data-driven enterprise of 2025 will be characterized by certain processes [2]. Data privacy, ethics, and security will be treated as areas of required competency. Apart from leveraging data for more efficient decision making, what other characteristics are peculiar to data-driven organizations?

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Is AI Technology on the Verge of Displacing Humans?

Effective Managers

This work is carried out by managers of front-line workers and professionals: nurses, doctors, engineers, lawyers, management consultants, people-managers, teachers, architects, detectives, dentists. ChatGPT 3, released in 2022, was trained on data collected in 2020. This is the big question before us. Human Capability.

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