Just give us the formula oh wise one! Is it mere hyperbole off on some tangent? Doubtful. Does it enable deep, and artificial thought? Perhaps. Is its derivative a thing of beauty? Absolutely.

damn!!! i love this thing

it is not totaly wrong to post her story as one undermining the creatability of buisness consulting

looks exacly like a error function.

You underestimate the power of the KPI. Their numbers aren't perfectly random, rather, they have biases – correlations with reality, some positive, some negative, with the positive ones convincing to accept the negative ones as positive.
As to your question – if you're the Yonatan I think you are, I'm surprised.

I'd think that KPI is probably as useful as gamma radiation or the sound of sea waves for generating random numbers – and important task in computer science.
But that is besides the point. You wrote these 20 paragraphs about a girl you were set up with and no mention of what she looked like?

The formula referenced in the beginning looks like f(x) = tanh(x)/2 +1/2

"I’d rather not know about the layer of slime that greases the gears of our world" – That's what BC said when I volunteered to tell her a few stories about the inner workings of the automotive industry to reciprocate for hers.

I'd rather not know about the layer of slime that greases the gears of our world. There is the illusion that an intelligent and decent human being can be a lotus, blossoming amidst the muck, but in reality, some jerk will show up and stomp on all of the flowers before they get a chance to be pollinated.

I'd watch the company you keep, Yossi. ; )

Cheating – you mean KPI measurements? That's a whole different topic. One way they use to measure KPI is an interview with an HR assessor who then writes down numbers quantifying your leadership skills, social skills, systemic thinking and the like. Cheating is relatively hard, at the expense of the "measurement" being somewhat irreproducible. It's a trade-off.

It's too bad they don't know that any proxy you measure for attainment of a goal quickly becomes worthless when people learn to cheat it.

But what can we expect when so many organizations punish honesty? Their response when they find cheating is to raise their standards.

Over time, their standards become high enough that *only* cheaters can meet them and they end up selecting only the best cheaters for their organization.

Sadly, this can still work. Usually because they also find ways to cheat that benefit the business, being good at it.

Wow, this HR spam comment is so impressive in both its contents and its quick arrival right after the publication that I don't even want to delete it.

Recruitment is very important in an organization. Its complexities are very much more to be handled with care. Services regarding human resources needs expertise and most likely experience in decision -making. So innovative Software tools are highly needed in their field, Integrated with those HR consulting technique for better organizational productivity such as hiring new competent candidates for the desired job.

Um, are you by any chance the Marcus of "Humus is the bridge to piece"?

A formula for making something arbitrary appear scientific, yep that's management consulting ;-)

People do keep buying. As to empirical evidence and scientific studies – a whole lot of good things in life are close to impossible to scientifically prove or analyze. (Of course I'm the last person to seriously defend consulting or any other practice where people supposedly having general economical and/or psychological knowledge tell people with actually relevant knowledge what to do, although I did see such people being right about things which shouldn't be obvious to an outsider a couple of times.)

Yes, for that, read "The Management Myth" by Matthew Stewart, which completely immolates the practice. The basic point is that the models that are preached by the consultants are completely without empirical merit. Ask a consultant where are the studies that show that his model works, and the best you'll ever get is either a series of anecdotal data points or a logical argument as to why this "makes sense" without mentioning the axioms from which the argument is derived. In short, business consulting is a mountain of horsecrap built from the fevered imagination of what the consultants think they can sell. Plus, a ripping good read...