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Edy Widjaja: From Jakarta Provision Shop to Bain Senior Partner & The Lessons In Between - E734
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Edy Widjaja, former Senior Partner at Bain & Company and author of The Accidental Partner, joins Jeremy Au for a candid look back at a 16-year management consulting career. They cover what the job actually consists of once you take away the slides and the pitch, how performance reviews and feedback really work inside a top firm, how he handled clients and competing stakeholders, how he and his wife traded off two demanding careers around a young child, what a partner does day to day that nobody sees, and what happened after he retired at the end of 2025. <...
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Way before becoming a partner, I was actually just a kid growing up in Indonesia. I grew up with my parents, 9m2, a proficient shop. We shouldn't think about working for a specific head or specific individual. It's hard to be always the customer in the company.
There are surely many things in the world I have not done. And I am not too old yet that I can start something new, whatever that is. But without leaving, it's very difficult for me. Hey Eddie, good to see you.
Good to see you again, Jeremy. It was nice to run into you to be in alumni reunion, realize that you're retired, realize that you wrote a book called
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