The paradox of “strategy consulting”

Ted Bauer
4 min readJun 12, 2022

I had a brief phase in my life when I wanted to get into strategy consulting. It seemed cool, and thought-provoking. Probably around 2005 or so, though, I saw my cousin in Boston. He was doing strategy consulting at the time (I think he still does, but let’s be honest I’m terrible at keeping in touch). Every Sunday he was flying Boston to Kansas City, coming back Thursday, and out again on Sunday. I know this is the common…

Ted Bauer

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