[14 SEP] PAPER CUT: Consulting Gets Rewritten by AI While Workers Play Defense

Layoffs stretch, mandates multiply, and consulting gets resized by AI. Workers hedge. Leaders talk trust. The gap is where your brand is made.

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Three humanoid robots stand in an office, with blurred human colleagues in the background, symbolizing consulting being reshaped by AI while employees play defense.
AI’s at the table; consulting rewrites the playbook while workers guard their moves.

If you believed the mid-year pep talks, autumn was meant to bring clarity. Instead we got more of the same in sharper relief. Big names keep trimming. RTO gets louder where outcomes are quiet. Consulting is being rebuilt by the very tools it once sold. Workers see the pattern and play defense.

The headline is not doom. It is discipline without design. When cuts arrive before systems change, you get faster spreadsheets and slower work.

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