505: How do leaders integrate? (with Richard Hawkes)

Solving a case while talking an interviewer through your thinking (written or otherwise) is, for the interviewer, a little like trying to understand a presentation without seeing the slides. Or at the...

4 Aug 202511min

This podcast is about the impact of confidence on cases and the importance of avoiding the content trap. We use simple ratios to explain why you need to be confident and how the content-trap sinks man...

30 Jul 202510min

At least 90% of aspiring management consultants assume that all McKinsey et al cases MUST be solved with frameworks. That is a dangerous myth. At least 60% of all McKinsey full cases (we are not refer...

28 Jul 202511min

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we talk about important case interview elements to consider.   Analyzing customers, competitors and the market: 3...

23 Jul 20259min

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we talk about brainstorming with definitions.   Brainstorming is very difficult and a crucial skill to have when ...

21 Jul 20255min

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we talk about the importance of you, the candidate, never ever giving the interviewer the benefit of the doubt, w...

16 Jul 20258min

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...

14 Jul 202513min

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...

9 Jul 202510min