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
212: Vague McKinsey/BCG feedback is good
This podcast is built on a discussion we recently had with a Yale PhD. His friend, who made it to the final round of McKinsey, was told that the firm had no specific development areas for her. She jus...
18 Aug 201416min
