Promoting an auditor to CEO was always going to bite Deloitte’s consulting division. The tension between the two areas – one the steady hand and the other the glitzy show pony – is as old as the nebulous industry of management consulting itself.
Few could have imagined chief executive Joanne Gorton’s ascent would result in the consulting version of a night of long knives. Late last week, we hear she quietly sacked about 55 people from the consulting and strategy division, many of them partners, across the country.
