The printing money machine


Consultants thrive in complexity.

And mostly, because they are the cause of complexity.

If it’s to simple, too easy, “they’ll” pay less.

That’s life.

Just like some MBAs… they get longer adding non-sense stuff, just to justify higher prices.

But that’s for another day.

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Well… nothing is more dangerous for the taxpayer that an army of consultants with no general at the helm.

They rapidly discover that they can print money but adding a few pages more to their reports.

Or more comments.

More doubts.

More concerns.

Request extra documentation.

Find new risks below some rocks.

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Weaks administrations cost everyone money.

Lots of it.

And what’s worse is that everyone knows it.

And nobody makes anything about it.

Not even politicians that want to keep “costs down” by not hiring top performers within the ranks of their agencies and ministries to keep things in order, to train good people.

And inside Bureocratia officials just prefer to cut down contracts in smaller pieces…legal, model, financial, taxes… more and more…

But they forget the extremely hard work that it’s the coordination of all those roasters claiming for more wheat.

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If I’ve been able to convince you about this.

If you believed, at least, just for a second, that this could be right…

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You may want to start by this link.

It will help you to take control of the money printing machine… for the best… or for the worse.

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Don't be embarrassed.

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