469: Great management consultants are artists (Strategy Skills classics)

469: Great management consultants are artists (Strategy Skills classics)

How do you become an outstanding management consultant? Should you excel at analysis? Should you master problem-solving? Should you become the world's most gifted communicator?

You could master all of the aforementioned items and still be an average management consultant at best. Great management consultants have all these skills but they have one more quality that makes them great, they are not just competent business people but they are also artists.

For this episode, let's revisit one of the classics by Strategy Skills where we explain the mindset we encourage teams to use on the study. This is the mindset I used in my career and it is very different from what you would expect.

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4: Anatomy of a McKinsey Networking Event

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3: McKinsey and BCG Networking

3: McKinsey and BCG Networking

Unless you have a stellar resume and profile, you will likely need to do some form of networking to secure an interview. Most aspiring consultants cannot network and treat networking as a “tick-the-box” set of coffee chats and phone discussions. Related: The Consulting Offer season 1, Partner Networking Emails

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2: Screening McKinsey Resumes

2: Screening McKinsey Resumes

This podcast introduces and discusses the steps firms like McKinsey use to screen and review resumes. Consulting firms and recruiters essentially look for five things: 1 Your school 2 Grades at school 3 Stature of employers 4 Achievements at work 5 Personal experience

23 Mars 201120min

1: Importance of GMAT Scores

1: Importance of GMAT Scores

This podcast answers the following reader question on GMAT scores and their relevance versus GPA scores when applying to consulting firms.

17 Mars 201122min

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