No they don't, again you're going to see what you want to see.
I will take the spend $5M and lose $6M because the total loss is $11M which is smaller than $13M and $15,000,001.59.
Yep, illustrating that just because you spend more or less on something doesn't mean you received more value for your dollar. That $15M consulting firm could have made you $1M and still been the worst deal unless you're Dokman.
And the bottom line is: if the company's "leadership" felt they needed to spend that much on outside consultants, their senior management needs to be replaced because the consultants are doing those senior managers' work. The company shouldn't be paying for both.
Not necessarily true. If upper management needed help with a particular problem many times hiring consultants with specific expertise on a temporary basis makes more sense.
I got another baseball analogy (tis the season)...Ralph Kiner led the league in home runs one year, he wanted a raise....his GM said "Nope, we would have still finished last without you." Always loved that line, but your point is correct....
Not necessarily. Oftentimes the projects that consultants are brought in for are short-term and rather narrowly focussed. That senior manager doesn't have 40 additional hours in their week to focus on that project, nor is that project going to last long enough to warrant hiring an additional employee. A consultant doesn't cost you medical insurance, workers' comp, payroll taxes, vacation, retirement, and unemployment. No golden parachute when their assignment is done either. Further, they are often paid on 30 day cycle, 30+days out.
He and Johnny Mize tied for a couple of years with home runs.
Sometimes less, like the time Ryder was told if they put the safe driving signs( Call 1800 2 Advise) on our trailers would save tons of money.
That's life Breeze. Just like going out on a date, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't.
There is a difference between willingly hiring a $100+ an hour consultant and paying $60+ an hour because a strike would stop cash flow and cause your customers to find alternative. One is free market, the other is extortion.
You mean like paying the road driver to wait and the yard guy to do the drop and hook.
And yet you had no problem working under that same scenario for thirty years. And now that you draw your 30-year pension every month, you think it is wrong for everyone else to try to do the same???
Does it start with an H and ends with an E?
MEASTER comes to mind...
Hmm....if this extortion, then maybe someone needs to call the authorities....it would be called supply and demand....simply if you don't meet the bargaining units wishes, they won't work for less...
Sorry, I have no idea.
: head comes to mind.... 
