Strategy Cosplay: When Slide Decks Replace Real Leadership

A flawless slide deck can feel like leadership, right up until you realize nothing actually changed. We start with the familiar corporate ritual, the glass room, the laser pointer, the proprietary framework names, then pull the thread on what’s really being purchased when companies hire strategy consultants: not insight, but authorization. The organizational psychology is brutal and oddly comforting at the same time. When leaders lack epistemic confidence and fear the consequences of being wr...