How’re things at Bain these days?

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Busy in most places. Innovating like crazy. Feeling the cracks in our office-centric approach, suspect we’ll need to copy you guys and organise around global practices before long.

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True you can always evaluate a company on the basis of: if they hire me, things are not good.

Puts on BCG

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A&M poaching our partners

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So good that they didn't even want me.

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