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Meet ‘trendslop,’ the new, AI-fueled scourge of workplace consultants everywhere

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Meet ‘trendslop,’ the new, AI-fueled scourge of workplace consultants everywhere
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Economists Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington argue that consultants can, at best, give dubious guidance, and at worst, exacerbate government and private sector dysfunction. In their book The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies, the economists argue consultants emerged in a post–Ronald Reagan era of reduced regulations, necessitating third parties come in to save institutions who had lost faith in themselves.



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