Interesting book on Management Consulting

["Amanda" <bluestreaker1977 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

While I realize that this is a tech writing list, I am currently working on 
tech writing for management consulting and stumbled across this book as I 
was researching today.

Ergh...

http://www.consulting-moneymachine.com

Rip-Off! - What's it all about?      Read / buy the book

Who are management consultants? What power do they have? How can they charge 
so many millions for their services? Do they really deliver any value? Why 
do organisations use them? How can some organisations pay tens of millions 
and even hundreds of millions of euros or dollars or pounds year after year 
to their favourite management consultancies?

At last, an insider takes the lid off Management Consulting and reveals how 
too often it has become a licence to take almost unlimited quantities of 
clients' money. In Rip-Off! - The scandalous inside story of the management 
consulting money machine, the author shows that there can sometimes be truly 
great management consultancy. However, he also reveals how most of the world's 
major Management Consultancies have become enormous factories churning out 
thousands of almost identical "vanilla" consultants, whose time must be sold 
to clients, whether clients have problems to be solved or not.

David Craig explains how consultancies can take someone off the street, 
teach them a few simple techniques and sell their time to clients for half a 
million pounds, dollars or euros a year. He shows how and when consultancy 
can deliver huge value. But he also gives example after example of where 
consultants have looted and even ruined well-known organisations. He shows 
the tricks used by consultants to manipulate management teams to ensure that 
even organisations which had no intention of using consultants, find 
themselves paying millions each year for consulting services. And he shows 
how, in a business awash with money, excesses of greed and sex pervert 
people's morality and lead to constant but lucrative abuse of clients' trust 
and confidence.