642: McKinsey Weak School (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Entering BBM with a weak school on your resume can create problems. Though, all of them tend to be created by the candidates themselves. These consultants tend to have so many incorrect preconceived i...
3 Jan 20246min
641: Building Hypotheses From Data Exhibits (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Reading graphs is a perennial problem for many candidates. Yet, the problem is not the interpretation of the graphical data itself. Rather, it is knowing what to do with that data once you have interp...
1 Jan 202413min
640: You Cannot Join McKinsey Strategy (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Far too many candidates demonstrate poor knowledge of consulting by insisting that they want to work for McKinsey strategy and not operations or BTO. This is a flawed strategy which will only hurt the...
27 Des 202310min
639: Ignoring partners in an interview (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
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...
25 Des 20239min
638: Evaluating your firm's training (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we discuss consulting firm's training. Too often clients ask the wrong questions when it comes to assessing train...
20 Des 202313min
637: How to Develop Your Strategic Fitness (with New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Rich Horwath)
Welcome to an interview with the author of Strategic, Rich Horwath. In his book, Rich delivers an incisive roadmap to help leaders at all levels think, plan, and act strategically to navigate every bu...
18 Des 202350min
636: Internal and External Strategies for Optimizing Your Sales Conversations and Communicating Solutions (with B2B Sales Expert, Rana Salman)
Welcome to an interview with Rana Salman, M.B.A, PhD, a renowned expert in the sales industry who is transforming the performance of sales teams worldwide. With a background in marketing and years of ...
13 Des 202349min
635: How to Disrupt a System That Was Built to Hold You Back (with Northwestern University Professor, Lan Nguyen Chaplin)
Welcome to an interview with a Professor of Integrated Marketing Communications, at Northwestern University, Lan Nguyen Chaplin. In this episode, we focused on how to disrupt a system that was built t...
11 Des 202345min
