Dangerous Company: Management Consultants and the Businesses They Save and Ruin - Softcover

O'Shea, James; Madigan, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140276858 ISBN 13: 9780140276855

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1998

Synopsis

Reveals the enormous power exercised by the biggest, most secretive firms in the consulting industry, detailing their successes and failures

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Review:

As the millennium approaches, management consultants have become ubiquitous--and extremely powerful. Often using secretive methods and usually drawing huge fees, they regularly make decisions that might affect thousands of people and cost billions of dollars. But are they ultimately worth the upheaval they can cause? In the first detailed examination of this incredibly influential industry, Dangerous Company: The Inside Story of the Great Consulting Companies, journalists James O'Shea and Charles Madigan offer a cautionary tale.

From the Inside Flap:

mpany chronicles the successes, failures, and practices of the biggest and most influential firms in the consulting industry. O'Shea and Madigan chronicle such stories as the one involving the consultant who provided state's evidence and landed his client behind bars, the Fortune 500 company that was billed over $75 million in consulting fees yet was left on the brink of bankruptcy, and the role played by consultants in the rejuvenation of Sears.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140276858
• ISBN 13: 9780140276855
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368