269: Misunderstanding "Being Analytic"
Aspiring and some young consultants tend to have a narrow outside-in view of management consulting. They make significant assumptions about why and how strategy studies are done, and try to replicate ...
21 Jun 201511min
268: What Michael Jordan Can Teach You About Strategy
Aspiring NBA stars make a classic mistake when trying to watch, analyze and replicate the reasons why someone like Michael Jordan was so successful. In this podcast I explain why aspiring management c...
15 Jun 201516min
267: Strategy Training Changes at Firmsconsulting
[Update June 11] The 1st strategy training map is live! All 16 steps of strategy planning and 200+ critical points are complimentary to all our members!
9 Jun 201521min
266: Case Studies in Strategy Projects
It is fair to say that being assigned to develop the case studies to help a team on the strategy study is considered a dead-end role for most consultants. An associate or analyst would much rather wan...
3 Jun 201520min
265: Client Lessons: Stanford Masters Student
This podcast was prepared for clients in our case coaching program. Each week I will consolidate the main questions and challenges clients are facing in the program and use these podcasts to communica...
28 Mai 201521min
264: From Siberia's winter plains to an elite university
The Firmsconsulting Emerging Fellows program is a program we run whereby we find and mentor promising young students from impoverished parts of the world. Working with them over several years, we guid...
22 Mai 201529min
263: How to read to improve reasoning
We have a section on the website where I list all of the articles I read on a daily basis: What Firmsconsulting is reading. The thinking was that readers could replicate the reading of a former strate...
16 Mai 201513min
262: BCG / McKinsey to Private Equity: 4 Client Experiences
If you wanted to move from BCG / McKinsey to private equity, how do you make the career change?
10 Mai 201527min
