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If you work at McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Accenture, EY, Deloitte, PwC, if you are an in-house consultant or an independent, you are witnessing the consulting industry being split in two.
I just mapped 60 core consulting skills (both hard and soft) against the impending threat of Generative AI.
The result is what I called the Consulting AI Threat Matrix, and it reveals which skills will be commoditized and which will become your ultimate competitive moat.
I plotted these skills across two dimensions (because I'm a consultant and I love a good quadrant ๐
)
The dimensions are:
1) Modality of execution (Algorithmic vs. Interpersonal)
2) Environmental entropy (Deterministic vs. Ambiguous)
The findings are a wake-up call for how firms train their talent:
- The Commoditization Zone (Bottom-Left): Standard financial modeling, UI/UX, RPA, and slide generation are facing severe disruption. If your value is tied to synthesizing clean data in predictable environments, GenAI will do it faster.
- The Augmentation Zone (Bottom-Right): Cloud architecture, predictive modeling, and hypothesis-driven problem-solving. GenAI is your co-pilot here, but human knowledge and judgment is required to navigate the ambiguity.
- The Strategic Premium (Top-Right): Consensus building, crisis de-escalation, unbiased judgment, and executive storytelling. GenAI cannot read a hostile stakeholder or mediate a turf war between a CIO and a CMO. This is the human moat.
If you are a senior consultant, a manager, director, partner, or aspiring consultant, your career trajectory depends on migrating to the top right.
I put together a detailed 10-page paper breaking down exactly how these 60 skills were evaluated, the criteria for each quadrant, and how consulting firms need to restructure their training programs to survive this shift, plus what actions you can take to safeguard yourself.
Just ping me somehow (comment here or DM me) and I'll send you the paper.
All the best!
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I was extremely bitter when Chow won four years ago, and thought the tax base and city would collapse.
So four years later, I thought about her record.
A lot of you wonโt know the following:
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One of the most interesting arguments about the #AI age comes from Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark, who studied literature and creative writingโnot computer science in college.
His point: As AI makes technical execution easier, the premium may shift to people who can ask the right questions, think critically, connect ideas across disciplines, understand history and human behavior, and see whatโs worth pursuing in the first place.
In other words, the skills we once dismissed as โsoftโ may become some of the hardestโand most valuableโskills to replace.
All kinds of evidence of this already.
#Leadership #HR #SHRM #FutureOfWork #LeadFromTheHeart
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I didn't know Presley Gerber. But I was rooting for him from afar, the way you root for anyone you recognize battling the same demons.
Addiction is a disease that knows no bounds. It doesn't care who your parents are, how much money you have, how loved you are, or how hard you're trying. And he was trying. He fought for his recovery in public, in front of a world that offers very little mercy to people who struggle where everyone can see.
We lost nearly 200 people to overdose in this country yesterday. We'll lose nearly 200 more today. About 1,300 a week. Almost 6,000 a month. Roughly 70,000 last year. Every one of them was somebody's Presley.
He started Mental Health Mondays because, in his words, "the goal was to spark real conversations about the stuff most people hide."
So don't hide. Ask for help. Keep asking. And if you've asked before and it didn't take, ask again.
You are not alone.
SAMHSA's National Helpline is free, confidential, and answers 24/7. 1-800-662-4357. You can also call or text 988.
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Breaking News: Bob Mackie, the designer who bedazzled major stars like Barbie, Elton John and RuPaul has died. He was 87. nyti.ms/4h6hGGP
Whenever friends or family tell me...I don't know why I don't like them...they usually quote these things that are later retracted as fact.
Daily Mail just admitted it invented an entire Harry & Meghan โsecret lunchโ with Geri & Christian Horner. The visit that never happened, โsummitโ that never happened, friendship that never happened, advice that never happened.
Vivek Chaudhary wrote it as fact.
Readers ate it.
Then a tiny correction after the damage was done.
This is the state of British journalism. Pure unadulterated invention of news!
Itโs fanfic with a byline and a circulation department.
UK tabloids treat fiction as news and the audience treats it as gospel.
Shameful, cheap, and they will do it again next week.
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The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontariโio, which, appropriately, means โthe lake is beautiful, the lake is bigโ.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario โ then, now and always.
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Across oceans and continents, your kindness
has found its way to Australia. Together, we are composing a symphony of hope, one note, one
child, one act of kindness at a time.
mycause.com.au/page/400668/sโฆ
#GlobalSymphonyOfKindness ๐ต๐ฆ๐บ
#ShowUpDoGood โจ
#HappyBirthdayPrincessMeghan ๐ธ๐๐
Our lemon and elderflower cake made by my 15yo eight years ago. #HappyAnniversary8 #MeghanandHarry
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You would be lying if you can't see or refuse to see just how powerful her presence is, how articulately she speaks- with passion, intent and true purpose.
Meghan Sussex is changing the world around her. And I for one, welcome her using her platform to help others.
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Modern Family co-stars Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell reunite in a skit-campaign for GSK to raise awareness about meningitis risks in teens and adults ๐ฅนโค๏ธ
I am so excited about this!!!
Florence Pugh is set to star in and produce the film adaptation of โTHE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY,โ based on the global bestseller with over 15M copies sold.
The story of Nora Seed, who finds herself in a library between life and death with the chance to experience all the potential lives she could have lived.
(deadline.com/2026/05/florencโฆ)
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Gosh, 12k signatures of complaint to IPSO since this morning. Thank you for doing this @newscord_org , and thank you, everyone, for supporting.
Link is below:
newscord.org/action/telegrapโฆ
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Thank you to Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon for her exemplary tenure as Governor General and for her lifetime of advocacy for Inuit rights, Indigenous self-determination, and the preservation of Indigenous language, culture, and identity.
As she prepares to exit the role, her legacy will endure not only in her service, but in the way she served โ with an unshakable belief in Canada.
ALT Prime Minister Carney stands with Her Excellency the Governor General Mary Simon at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Ontario.
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All children deserve a clean and fun environment to play. So, if you can, please join me and donate to Kaboom in honor of Prince Archieโs Birthday.
Please retweet!
#PrinceArchieTurns7
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