675: How to Be Productive (with Google's Laura Mae Martin)

Between 17 January 2013 and 30 January 2013 we will be rolling out some significant and exciting changes to the website. Many of these changes coincide with the premier of Season Two of the Consulting...

17 Maalis 201513min

Alice Qinhua Zhou holds a candid interview with Michael where she answers a wide variety of questions clients posted on social media and emailed in, about her involvement in The Consulting Offer Seaso...

5 Maalis 201536min

We discuss the steps taken to make this session as realistic as possible. From the selection of the meals, the use of surprises like the waitress to test behaviour, Kevin's style of changing the flow ...

27 Helmi 20159min

The Consulting Offer II (TCO II) records the entire interview process from networking, through to the closed-list dinner, PEI, group interviews and all interview rounds, including extensive debrief in...

21 Helmi 201523min

MBA programs around the world encourage experienced technology employees to forgo salary, experience and promotion in the hope of obtaining an MBA and the path to a consulting or banking career. Howev...

15 Helmi 201522min

In this detailed strategy specific podcast I discuss a railway privatization and commercialization engagement I co-managed earlier in my tenure as a corporate strategy principal. I outline how we reor...

9 Helmi 20151h 15min

In podcasts 237 and 238, I discuss a fairly muscular and risky set of strategies I used to increase my leadership standing in the firm and challenge mentors whom I believed were damaging the firm's va...

3 Helmi 201526min

Having mentored a large number of older consulting hires, all were older than myself, this podcast distinguishes between older hires with working experience and those without working experience. Depen...

28 Tammi 201528min