Getting Drunk in First Class

“DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE A BANKER!”
 
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For comparison, the CEO of Accenture took home $12 M in total compensation last year.
Bankers: You win!
Nation: You lose.
Dear MBA students focused on finance and now beginning the job search: Welcome to consulting.  Yes, we are still hiring strong.

The message comes through on my Blackberry. One of the associates working for our largest client confirms a looming rumor: starting next quarter, all “contracted employees” will be drug tested. I sniffle; a tear falls; I blow my nose and shrug.
But once I realize the scope implied by term “contracted employees,” I suddenly become nervous. [...]

• Everyone In the West Wing will have to work until 9PM every night so taxpayers feel they are getting their money’s worth
• He will have walked every congress member through the “State of the Union” address prior to presenting it In order to gain consensus and avoid any political land mines
• The US Budget [...]

Main Entry: 1bane
Function: noun
1 a : KILLER, SLAYER b : POISON c : DEATH, DESTRUCTION d : WOE
2 : a source of harm or ruin : CURSE  
Now here is a company who understands consulting!  Bain knows how to mislead with statistics.  Some version of the following graphic is always the bain.com hood ornament:

And the accompanying [...]

Reading my all-time favorite magazine, Consulting Magazine, clearly the “Flagship Publication of the Consulting Profession,” I was alerted to a recent article which was a “one-on-one” with Scott Hefter of PRTM and may I point out that if you simply replace any reference to “PRTM” in the article with [your firm's name] you will [...]