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Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
- Management methods
- Fad and fashion in management method (1)
- Publications of management methods (1)
- Publications of management methods (2)
- What explains such rise and fall in popularity?
- Management consultants about their method (1)
- Management consultants about their method (2)
- Fashion goods
- Fear (1)
- Fear (2)
- Lonely managers (1)
- Lonely managers (2)
- M. Hammer's quotation
- The consultant and the manager relationship
- Dependency
- The cycle of dependency
- Dependency is increased by using consultants
- More about dependency
- Typical thinking
- Managers are willing to believe
- Do these management methods work?
- The (second) best selling business book
- In Search Of Excellence
- McKinsey 7-S model elements
- Excellence is a matter of time
- Managers depend on "in search of excellence"
- Managers are desperately thirsty for ideas (1)
- Managers are desperately thirsty for ideas (2)
- Condensed books
- Typical business gurus
- Confused managers (1)
- Confused managers (2)
- Consultants should not always be taken seriously
- The cycle of expectation
- Desperate manager
- Managers are being trained rather than educated
- Fad and fashion in management method (2)
- Mobile manager needs management method
- Management science
- The manager as scientist
- Matching the right solution to the problem
- Managers don't rely on their own judgement
Topics Covered
- Change in organisations often means bringing in management consultants
- Managers may have little choice
- Failure to hire consultants suggests that managers are less than serious about change
- Yet, expectations are raised when the consultants arrive, especially if they are expensive consultants
- How managers can become dependent on management consultants and their methods
Talk Citation
Macdonald, S. (2010, May 26). Management consultants [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved May 9, 2024, from https://hstalks.com/bm/1733/.Export Citation (RIS)