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It's Time to Kill Recruitment.
The machines are writing CVs to impress other machines and HR is calling it innovation. But it’s just an expensive and pointless acceleration of stupidity.
There’s a quiet absurdity playing out in recruitment right now, and no one is calli...
Why Project Management Is Killing the Actual Work
Bin the project governance theatre. Abandon the illusion of certainty. Let people build the bridge.
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Here’s why. I look around the train carriage. Earbuds in. Laptops open. Half of them are on Teams calls...
McKinsey’s own research shows 30 years of consulting has failed.
McKinsey & Company just published The State of Organizations 2026.
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10,000 leaders surveyed. 72 pages. And the most expensive own goal in consulting history. Because here’s what their own data actually show...
The Siren Song of Psychological Safety
The claim: Psychological safety is fundamental to strong teams, learning cultures, and environments where people feel confident to speak up.
The problem: That last part is the definition, not a consequence. It’s like saying “hydration is f...
The Supply Chain of Corporate Bullshit
Why management consulting “research” should be treated like advertising.
Here’s a question nobody seems to be asking: why does a £50 Facebook ad face more regulatory scrutiny than a McKinsey white paper that drives £50 million in corporat...
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Paul Sweeney is a London-based strategic advisor and former Chief Strategy Officer of The Unite Group (FTSE100). He is CEO at Sense Labs, and the author of Magnetic Nonsense: A Short History of Bullshit at Work and How to Make It Go Away.
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