Mitt Romney Business

Mitt Romney - Business Career

Mitt Romney was a business consultant during the formative first decade of his professional life. What did Mitt Romney do as a business consultant and how did Mitt Romney's business consulting career shape him as a future presidential candidate?

Mitt Romney did business "strategy" consulting that in theory develops and provides strategic advice to senior executives of major corporations. But the reality is somewhat different.

For example, major corporations often hire "strategy" consultants to gather sensitive intelligence on competitors, a type of work verging on corporate espionage and deemed too risky to do in-house. To gather such intelligence, the hired consultants contact their clients' competitors and must lie about themselves, their clients and the reason for their intrusive inquiries.

Another common reason why senior executives of major corporations hire strategy consultants is to support their pet projects and to insure their careers against potential failures. For example, a firm's senior executives with competing pet projects each hire strategy consultants to champion their project, and to take the blame for them if their project is adopted and fails.

The consultants hired for such work are paid handsomely to say whatever their clients want them to say, and to pretend that their recommendation was developed from their own expertise. Many corporate executives become dependent on such consultants, whose incomes are tied to their ability to latch onto and say whatever it takes to maintain the cash flow from such clients.

While we may wonder how Mitt Romney is able with a straight face to flip flop on key issues, including homosexual marriage, and say whatever he thinks the voters want him to say, that is what Mitt Romney was trained to do.

This leads us to two fundamental questions: "What does Mitt Romney really believe?" and "Why does Mitt Romney want to be President so desperately?" The answer may surprise.