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94: The End of Consultants
Big-ticket consulting is wobbling. McKinsey, Accenture, Deloitte, EY, KPMG—together they’ve announced tens of thousands of layoffs while clients feed generative-AI the questions they once paid armies of analysts to answer. In this episode, Chris Cooper unpacks the coming “consulting crash,” explains why AI has punctured the information moat, and predicts that only one in ten traditional consultants will survive.
But advice-giving won’t vanish. Instead, it splits:
Mentors deliver high-level strategy—now super-charged by AI that runs instant market sims.
Coaches drive execution—now backed by…
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