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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640: You Cannot Join McKinsey Strategy (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

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...

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639: Ignoring partners in an interview (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

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 Dec 20239min

638: Evaluating your firm's training (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

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 Dec 202313min

637: How to Develop Your Strategic Fitness (with New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Rich Horwath)

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 Dec 202350min

636: Internal and External Strategies for Optimizing Your Sales Conversations and Communicating Solutions (with B2B Sales Expert, Rana Salman)

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 Dec 202349min

635: How to Disrupt a System That Was Built to Hold You Back (with Northwestern University Professor, Lan Nguyen Chaplin)

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 Dec 202345min

635: How to influence your interviewer (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

635: How to influence your interviewer (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we discuss a client who is very good at influencing the way interviewers work with her, and the subtle danger of ...

6 Dec 202322min

634: How do you gain more experience? (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

634: How do you gain more experience? (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we discuss how to gain more experience. Many candidates are declined with the suggestion to gain more work experi...

4 Dec 202311min

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