220: Why Candidates Fail to Succeed
This is an important and wide ranging podcast around the theme of why candidates fail and some key observations from Felix in The Consulting Offer Season 1.
5 Okt 201443min
219: Are Some Consulting Club Leaders Selfish?
The concept of a Management Consulting Club is great, but the execution leaves little to be desired. Very few clubs are actually run by presidents/executive council members who know anything about con...
29 Sep 201415min
218: Ignoring partners in an interview
You have been brainwashed by every single forum and case book to assume that McKinsey wants a framework and set of hypotheses, that you have stopped listening as carefully to the interviewer and simpl...
23 Sep 20149min
217: Women are their own worst enemies
I want to talk about three incidences and what it says about how women think about themselves.
17 Sep 201424min
216: Choosing Boutique Firms over McKinsey
Choosing a boutique firm as one path into management consulting is a popular choice. While boutique consulting firm appear to operate like McKinsey and BCG, and may even be led by ex-partners, there b...
11 Sep 201430min
215: How non-case problems impacted Rafik
Most aspiring management consultants will spend about 95% of their time focusing on the technical issues to fix their case performance. That is, they focus on hypotheses, frameworks, decision trees, s...
5 Sep 201412min
214: Why entrepreneurs always provide poor PEI answers
Entrepreneurs almost always fail to answer the most basic question: If you were so successful, why are you leaving behind all that success to apply for a ~$150K/annum package at McKinsey as an associa...
30 Aug 201411min
213: How Michael fixed a stuttering problem
This podcast draws on the feedback of one of our principals, Michael Boricki who was a Big-3 principal and left the firm on the day after he was appointed director, to discuss the technique he used to...
24 Aug 201414min
