Strategy folks: how do your project teams work? Recently joined a boutique strategy firm and was surprised that only the project manager thinks about how to approach the business questions. (Cont)

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I don’t think the White House qualifies as a strategy firm, OP

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Roland Berger?

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Old school

Anyone else on the project is not expected to contribute ideas. Anyone other than the project manager is supposed to just take notes when the project manager talks and only speak when there is a need to ask clarifying questions.

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Yikes

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Which boutique?

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I don’t think I should disclose, but I’m curious how does it usually work at your firm?

This sounds great lol. Where do u work and how much do you make?

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Sounds like a bad manager; good strategy only works if people are collaborative and the structure is relatively flat

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Sharing ideas? That’s unheard of. The thought police will be with you shortly S&2.

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Had to get that off my chest. Life is so nice/on easy mode these days 😬

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