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Working in the corporate world, you sooner or later are going to ask yourself what is with all these neverending management strategies, leadership practices and company policies.
Every time one change has been allowed to settle down, the next project is started to make the necessary changes to keep up with a transient market.

This question is not only going to become more and more apparent, but it is a very valid question. Do you even see the effects of a change before you have changed it again? How do you know what works or not?
Looking at it like this, it seems rather peculiar doesn’t it?

What if, really, it is not the effects and changes that are interesting or important? What if all these strategies serve another purpose, unknown to most?

I am not telling you about some evil conspiracy by some hidden organisation that has a specific goal. I’m just asking you to ponder this theory:

We live in a world that appears to be changing faster than ever. Every second there is a possibility that something unexpected can happen. In order to survive as a company on this market, you must adapt, change and continously come up with new ideas and ways to reach your customers. It seems that this is vital for survival.
Yet, you never really know what will happen, and therefore you are kind of stumbling your way through the dark. Panic starts to rise. You can feel the fear crawling up your spine.
You must do something! You feel like you are fighting for survival, but you don’t know who the enemy is or what is happening.

Suddenly, a door opens in the distance and a figure appears. It is the Saviour! He walks towards you, and you can barely see because of the bright light that blinds you.
The light diminishes and suddenly this figure takes form. He wears a black Armani suit with shining black shoes and holding a briefcase in his hand. Your Saviour has finally come.

The Management Consultant.

He comes loaded with all these new trendy words and concepts of management strategies, ready to share with you the secrets to survive in this highly competitive world were doom is just waiting around the corner. He teaches you all these new tricks that you devoutly set in to practice. He promises you great returns that you never actually see, but it doesn’t matter, because your work has a purpose, you are putting in great effort and fight off the demons with your new learned tools.
The fight is distracting you so that you do not realize the fact that very little of what you do actually have an effect, and in a way it doesn’t matter, because suddenly you think that you are in control. That this unpredictable world is more predictable. That you are ready to meet the unknown.
This illussion of control, makes you feel a little bit more safe, a little less worried and the dynamics of the trendy creative management consultants and the zealous managers eager to try every new strategy, keeps the world in motion.
Until some evil Lord comes and busts your bubble…