Here’s an intriguing article in the brit newsie The Independent by  Matthew Stewart, formerly a management consultant, about the “dark arts” of the management consultancy business.
It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of “Nietzsche and German Idealism”. The annual recruiting season had long since gone. My life savings had dwindled into three digits. It came to me in a pub, over a game of pool. I was losing badly to a pair of undergraduates who had recently received offers from a prestigious management consulting firm. They were about 22-years-old; I was going on 26. As I gazed at the pool balls ricocheting around the table, it hit me that, instead of spending the next year watching daytime TV, I too, could earn some ready cash by offering strategy tips to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
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