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title: "Bain — Associate Consultant → Consultant"
role: "Associate Consultant → Consultant"
startDate: 2011
endDate: 2014
url: https://dazuck.com/work/bain
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# Bain — Associate Consultant → Consultant

The systems-training chapter. Bain taught organizations as systems with friction, not as orgcharts — that lens runs underneath every later role.

The direct-promotion-to-Consultant offer makes the leaving cost something; it is easy to leave when you are bad at it.

Pattern that starts here: ambition expanding, then re-examined when the work feels far from the thing.

_Bain → Zearn: I wanted to build, not advise._

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