When I first started out after leaving high school I worked in the Lab at the Auckland Milk Corporation. One of my key roles was to propagate what we called Bulg and Therm. Bulg’s proper name was Lactibacillus bulgaricus. Therm was Streptococcus Thermophilus. Collectively they were known as the culture that miraculously transformed milk into Fresh n’ Fruity and Meadow Fresh yoghurts.
During my recent visit to Europe I caught up with two of my former students, who are employed by two of the largest global Consultancy Firms.
It seems that both of these big ticket firms adopt a similar high-margin ‘Business Model’. They hire young graduates and throw them in the deep end, working on projects they have never been trained for and with little more than a simple brief and a ‘fake it till you make it approach’.
