Early career Partner (<5yrs) at a B4. I have an opp for a VP exec role at one of my clients. Does an industry stint add any value to a future consulting/product career. Pros /cons when any of you have explored this option?

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I would think that you would never be coming back. It’s possible but less frequent.

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Could be good albeit different comp trajectories

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Put aside "impact on future career prospects" for a minute and ask yourself what you actually want to do. Do you want to stay in consulting the rest of your life? If so, do you want to be a high earning line partner or do you want to rise up the leadership ranks? Do you want to transition to industry permanently and take a shot at the C Suite? Do you want to go into PE?

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Use this as a potential move beyond corporate. Run a large P&L, which in consulting does not materialize till a practice or sector leader.

I’ve always pitied an early career partner, because the grass is always greener until it’s not (says this late bloomer). Play for max title or play for max cash, but you can never play for both. Do you want SP or do you want a fine corp job? Follow your heart and good luck.

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It absolutely can. Depends on the industry and practice area. Also depends on whether you will be incrementally attractive as partner if you return. For example - if you became a cfo of a dental organization- perhaps not. But if it was in a growth area for a B4.

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Would be awesome depth, learning about actual consequences of your decisions, and organizational politics which are so different / more hierarchical than inside a consulting firm. But you might have an atrophied broad network on the other side of it. Might not matter of your return to consulting would land you in a role serving only one large account.

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Depends on the function and industry.
If you look across the consulting landscape where you potentially may have partnership opportunities in the future, does this role add depth/breadth in a function and industry that is a major growth practice area? The tradeoff is between the loss of revenue , client management + P&L responsibilities and functional and industry depth.

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VP - wouldn’t you want an SVP role ?

Ha yeah maybe ……

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