230: McKinsey Paris: First Coaching of Sasha
Our client, Sasha recently received an offer from McKinsey Paris for the Operations Practice. This is the first podcast of a series of three interviews with him.
4 Dec 201446min
229: Why Internal Strategy Units Rarely Create Consultants
This podcast is based on the Quarterly article about the pros and cons of joining internal consulting units in banks, primarily as a substitute for careers in McKinsey or BCG.
28 Nov 201425min
228: How Great Consulting Firms Die
This podcast is linked to the article about recent recruiting problems at BCG. We elevate the problem here and discuss the basic elements which lead to the decline of great firms or why smaller firms ...
22 Nov 201426min
227: Lessons from returning to Turkey from the USA
This podcast accompanies the recent article about a Turkish client who was trying to complete her MBA and move back to Turkey BCG or McKinsey after about 15 years outside the country. The podcast was ...
16 Nov 201421min
226: Poor Networking and Mentor-Mentee Etiquette
This podcast is linked to the recent quarterly article about the speech Marvin Bower made way back in 1964. Rather than focusing on the many useful elements of the speech, we will focus on the unifyin...
10 Nov 201430min
225: How Michael Would Use The Consulting Offer
This is not a complex podcast. It is more a reminder. I talk through the very simple steps I would use when learning from The Consulting Offer: Read all the pages about the show Read all the session d...
4 Nov 20149min
224: Picking a Mentor Who is Not the Best At their Field
This podcast is based on an off-the-record conversation I had with Felix when we were not recording The Consulting Offer. Sometimes after the 90 minute sessions we would engage in small-talk and usefu...
29 Okt 201414min
223: Picking a Mentor Who is Not the Best At their Field
This podcast is based on an off-the-record conversation I had with Felix when we were not recording The Consulting Offer. Sometimes after the 90 minute sessions we would engage in small-talk and usefu...
23 Okt 201424min
