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House of Lies, a comedy series which premiered on Showtime January 8, follows a group of management consultants who stop at nothing to get business deals done. According to Paul Thoresen, a contributing blogger for the SIOP Exchange, the new series portrays several behaviors and tactics of which he believes consultants should steer clear.
 
Thoresen discusses the series and how it relates to I-O management consultants this week in his first blog post for a continuing series on the topic of measurement/ methods, motivation/attitude, organization development, and training.
 
“On the premiere episode of House of Lies (a Showtime original series) ‘management consultants’ are painted as soulless opportunists," Thoresen says. "With the tagline ‘Survival of the Slickest,’ this should not be very surprising to most. The show’s first episode portrays the main protagonist (played by Don Cheadle) attempting to win over clients with flattery, meaningless jargon, and several other less than productive tactics....Read more 

 

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Speed Mentoring is Back at the 2012 Annual Conference

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