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What do consultants get paid for? - by Luis Garicano

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The analysis is the easy part

What do consultants get paid for? The analysis is the easy part Luis Garicano Jul 30, 2026 77 10 7 Share A consultant I had lunch with recently is redesigning the loyalty program of a large airline. His team finished the analysis in two weeks. Months later the program still does not exist. This is because the purpose of the assignment is not to solve an analytical case study, but to figure out which redesign the parties will accept, and to get the people with authority to commit to implementing it. I was not surprised to hear the story. In our just-published book Messy Jobs: The Work That AI C

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