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There is an old joke in management consultancy circles. It runs something like this. Management consultancy is the art of borrowing someone else’s watch to tell him the time. However valid this observation may or may not be two generations of management consultants have become extremely corpulent living on borrowed time.
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© 1993 Bob Reynolds
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Reynolds, B. (1993). The Other Man’s Watch — Management Consultancy. In: Excellence in Accountancy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12085-7_4
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