It has taken your humble blogger a long time to reach this conclusion, but I'm of the mind that it is a quality most prevalent among people who really don't know what the hell they are doing. Because people who do know what they are doing find a profession they're good at and stay there, (a) because they know they're good at their jobs, and (b) that knowledge provides them with satisfaction with their lot in life. By contrast, people who don't know what they are doing are rarely ever content, which leads them to strive for positions for which they are wholly unqualified but which allow them to disguise the fact that they really don't know what the hell they are doing:
Much of the astronomically expensive specialist 'advice' was copied from existing books for other clients. How I know? Because in spite of the 300 revisions they had failed to replace all the names! Frequently they'd lift stuff straight from the client company's own publications. I often saw emails going round: 'stop feeding clients their own material'. Never made any difference.---Baron V"Page Two of all books advising clients on their deals contained a disclaimer that 'nothing in this document can be interpreted as advice'. So the client is paying millions for your brilliant advice which has to be prefaced by a disclaimer.
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