For leaders that have been in consulting for a few decades - can you share how consulting has generally evolved from the 70s/80s through now ? Curious about ways of working, technology, types of deals, client chemistry given explosion of communication..etc

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It was A LOT more fun.

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The playing hard got you through the really tough “work hard” times. It also helped form lifelong friendships.

I also liked that there were far fewer “consultants” back then. The title of consultant was respected and you didn’t feel like a cog in a wheel.

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You thinking there are a lot of 60’s and 70’s on this app?

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Not a lot but I was hoping there would be atleast a few nostalgic 60 year olds who might post

Read The Worlds Newest Profession

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I'm not that old... started in the late 90s. We certainly didn't have google (nor did our clients) back then 😁. One phrase I recall was "you only have to know the answer just before your client asks" and made sure to learn what we needed to know the night before. 😂

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I have had definitely been in meetings where I've frantically searched something on my phone under the table or strategically timed a bathroom trip to read up content and then baked my newly learned fact seamlessly into my narrative. I would not survive the 90s

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by the turn of the century, three things combined to change the profession from my perspective.

First, the laptop, internet, and email became powerful. The conjoint i needed to buy a Sun Microstation to run in the mid 90s i could now do on my flight to NYC on my laptop using Sawtooth. The internet opened up massive amounts of data that folks like Thomson and Bloomberg were digitizing and making nice workflow tools for. Suddenly discovery was easy. And email is just way, way, way more efficient than voicemail - remember hopping off your flight and calling into VM from a payphone?

Secondly, the diaspora of professionals from the 90s and 01 bubble pushed tons of ex-consultants into firms. They learned to use us better, demanded vertical expertise, and compressed the timeline of projects.

Thirdly, I-banks and consulting moved behind tech and PE in recruiting so the quality of our folks declined. Now we have a bunch of 'good enough' and a few stars. That means greater reliance on KM and process.

My thoughts.

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Excellent post. As the industry grows, the quality seems to be declining.

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