The New York Times obtains documents prepared by the maligned consulting firm projecting scenarios for Saudi's golf league. Plus, a Year In Review podcast from McKellar.
Howdy, Geoff. "Especially grimy" indeed. With alumni like Sundar Pichai, Sheryl Sandburg and James McNerny, the dungus rarely drops too far from the bungus when it comes to McKinsey. Somewhat humorously (as is black as pitch), the Big Mc's transgressions in helping the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma kill millions of Americans through the Days of Wine and Oxycontin SURELY were not as grave as the Enron and Worldcom scandals that led to Andersen Consulting getting SMU'd. So, the beat goes on. As you point out, the brilliant reportage offered by the NYT's Sarah Hurtes and Alan Binder, gives us a jeweler's loupe view of MBS, Vision 2020, and Saudi LIV SPORTSWASHING from planning to execution. (Thanks, by the way, for the suggestion of When McKinsey Comes to Town.) As I live through the remainder of my life, I am stunned less and less by that which floored me only a few years ago. So many of our brothers and sisters in this human endeavor seemingly just don't give a flying f*** about standards on a human scale, or moral points on a compass. Immediately, though, many of them WILL retort with an overused false equivalence in an attempt to justify an action or to prove hypocrisy. In Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon offered “... if they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." The right questions will ALWAYS be the right questions. Period.
Oh yeah, The Line - NEOM, which is ALL MBS. Over 150 members of the Howeitat tribe have been arrested for criticizing their removal from their tribal lands in prep of The Line. Two have been sentenced to 50 years imprisonment, while three others have been sentenced to death, due to protesting their eviction from their homes. But as the Trouser Shark said in response to Jamal Kashoggi's murder: "... we've all made mistakes." Imagine that the Crown Prince is still mazing the same mistakes. Who'da ever thunk it?
The real story continues to be how a clownish competitor can be such a great disruption for the PGAT. This shows that the Tour has major problems and the biggest one is the only major type of event they control is the Players and Ryder Cup every two years. If the Tour was in a strong position and weekly tournaments gad big ratings LIV would not be an issue. Seems desperate when the best argument against LIV is that it is dirty money is a rather weak one.
Howdy, Geoff. "Especially grimy" indeed. With alumni like Sundar Pichai, Sheryl Sandburg and James McNerny, the dungus rarely drops too far from the bungus when it comes to McKinsey. Somewhat humorously (as is black as pitch), the Big Mc's transgressions in helping the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma kill millions of Americans through the Days of Wine and Oxycontin SURELY were not as grave as the Enron and Worldcom scandals that led to Andersen Consulting getting SMU'd. So, the beat goes on. As you point out, the brilliant reportage offered by the NYT's Sarah Hurtes and Alan Binder, gives us a jeweler's loupe view of MBS, Vision 2020, and Saudi LIV SPORTSWASHING from planning to execution. (Thanks, by the way, for the suggestion of When McKinsey Comes to Town.) As I live through the remainder of my life, I am stunned less and less by that which floored me only a few years ago. So many of our brothers and sisters in this human endeavor seemingly just don't give a flying f*** about standards on a human scale, or moral points on a compass. Immediately, though, many of them WILL retort with an overused false equivalence in an attempt to justify an action or to prove hypocrisy. In Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon offered “... if they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." The right questions will ALWAYS be the right questions. Period.
Oh yeah, The Line - NEOM, which is ALL MBS. Over 150 members of the Howeitat tribe have been arrested for criticizing their removal from their tribal lands in prep of The Line. Two have been sentenced to 50 years imprisonment, while three others have been sentenced to death, due to protesting their eviction from their homes. But as the Trouser Shark said in response to Jamal Kashoggi's murder: "... we've all made mistakes." Imagine that the Crown Prince is still mazing the same mistakes. Who'da ever thunk it?
Gahhh... meant it, didn't write it. Apologies for the stream of consciousness garf sans checking my facts versus my "memory."
The real story continues to be how a clownish competitor can be such a great disruption for the PGAT. This shows that the Tour has major problems and the biggest one is the only major type of event they control is the Players and Ryder Cup every two years. If the Tour was in a strong position and weekly tournaments gad big ratings LIV would not be an issue. Seems desperate when the best argument against LIV is that it is dirty money is a rather weak one.