Sometime in early 2008, before the financial system completely broke down, The Boston Consulting Group's David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter were working on a series of whitepapers calling for ways to navigate the challenging financial future. After gaining some traction within their own firm, the two were convinced they had hit a nerve after they watched Lehman Brothers and Bear Sterns collapse in the fall of that same year. Those "Collateral Damage" whitepapers came to be the book Accelerating Out of the Great Recession—How to Win in a Slow-Growth Economy . Rhodes recently sat down recently with Consulting to discuss the book, the economy, his clients and where we go from here.
Consulting: How did you get from a series of white papers to this book?
