838: Sanity Checking Estimations in Cases (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

838: Sanity Checking Estimations in Cases (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

Many candidates forget to sanity-check their calculations in a case. That is a bad idea. Without a sanity-check there is no way to meaningfully assess the accuracy of your answer. More important, how you perform the sanity check is the key. All sanity-checks must involve the reduction of the answer to a number that you can intuitively compare to your own experiences. Unless you do this, you can never defend your answer.

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656: Winning with Data Science (with Harvard grad and Cerebral data science team leader, Akshay Swaminathan)

656: Winning with Data Science (with Harvard grad and Cerebral data science team leader, Akshay Swaminathan)

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655: Taking resume feedback (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

655: Taking resume feedback (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

Taking resume feedback is one of the most fundamental steps as you begin your application process and case interview preparation. If done badly, no matter how well you practice for cases, you will not...

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654: What's LOVE Got to Do With Leadership? (with Visionary Business Leader and Best Selling Author, Mark A. Mears)

654: What's LOVE Got to Do With Leadership? (with Visionary Business Leader and Best Selling Author, Mark A. Mears)

Welcome to an interview with the author of The Purposeful Growth Revolution: 4 Ways to Grow from Leader to Legacy Builder. In this book, you will learn to apply 4 holistic and revolutionary processes ...

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653: Stressful interview situations (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

653: Stressful interview situations (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

This podcast examines the typical tell-tale signs candidates show when placed under stress in a case interview and offers suggestions on how to manage these situations. The key to managing this proble...

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652: Three phrases to annoy an interviewer (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

652: Three phrases to annoy an interviewer (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

There are three phrases which create trouble in an interview: "I think that…" and "In my opinion…" and "But, if I look at my friends…" Not only are they defensive, and arrogant, they are also clear in...

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651: Invisible presentation technique (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

651: Invisible presentation technique (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

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...

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650: Confidence and content traps in case interviews (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

650: Confidence and content traps in case interviews (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

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...

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649: FLUKE: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters (with professor of global politics at University College London, Brian Klaas)

649: FLUKE: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters (with professor of global politics at University College London, Brian Klaas)

Welcome to an interview with the author of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters, Brian Klaas. In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas deep-dives into the phenomenon of...

29 Jan 202445min

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