338: Management Consulting: Your Ego is Your Enemy

338: Management Consulting: Your Ego is Your Enemy

Since this is the time of year when FC members are going to be negotiating salaries, attending case interviews and anxiously making decisions, we thought it is a good idea to once again reflect on ethics and values.

At times like these many sometimes feel that if they could just cut this corner now, everything will be OK... We want to provide some context for how to make decisions that will not only make you feel better in the long term, but will actually leave you better off financially.

In this episode we use some interesting anecdotes from Firmsconsulting to articulate these points.

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Good luck to everyone going through the case interview recruitment process.

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400: The six tools of successful leaders (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #20)

400: The six tools of successful leaders (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #20)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we're going to focus on four major themes from last week's news. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

22 Mars 202132min

399: The perils of low costs (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #19)

399: The perils of low costs (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #19)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we're going to focus on four major themes from last week's news. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

15 Mars 202139min

398: Consulting case interview (McKinsey, BCG, Bain) example: French dairy farm wants to increase revenue

398: Consulting case interview (McKinsey, BCG, Bain) example: French dairy farm wants to increase revenue

We hope you will enjoy the "Consulting case interview (McKinsey, BCG, Bain) example: French Dairy Farm Wants to Increase Revenue" episode. This is excerpt from TCO IV with Sizan, episode 33. This is a market share case. If we gave Sizan a case about a factory she would find it easier to increase production. But it is not as easy when it comes to dealing with animals. This is a case with production element. The part we expect candidates to see is that this is a case about stealing market share. To steal market share there are 4 things you can do. How do you steal market share? 1. Price 2. Place 3. Promotion 4. Product. The 4 Ps of marketing. You need to think about the case. Ask yourself what are we trying to do. We got a dairy company. We want to sell more. What does it mean to sell more? We basically want to increase our market share. How do we take market share? Every single case can be reduced to either increasing revenue or cutting costs. If you trying to sell more milk, you are trying to increase revenue. This is a revenue case where we specifically want to focus on volume. Milk is a commodity. Even organic milk is a commodity. Remember you need to follow the right process during a consulting case interview when you are preparing and going through interviews with companies like McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte etc. In fact, learning and mastering this process will also greatly help you when you start working as a management consultant, and even once you exit consulting. You can't just rely on your knowledge and experience. Your experience and knowledge can get outdated, but if you follow the right process you are giving yourself the best chance to be a strong problem solver.

9 Mars 202115min

397: Rethinking M&A (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #18)

397: Rethinking M&A (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #18)

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9 Mars 202137min

396: Apple disrupts a decades-old value chain migration (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #17)

396: Apple disrupts a decades-old value chain migration (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #17)

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9 Mars 202137min

395: The single biggest strategy shift for the next few decades (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #16)

395: The single biggest strategy shift for the next few decades (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #16)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we're going to focus on four major themes from last week's news. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

22 Feb 202138min

394: Apple car & Amazon's core strategy (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #15)

394: Apple car & Amazon's core strategy (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #15)

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15 Feb 202134min

393: Defense is not a strategy (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #14)

393: Defense is not a strategy (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #14)

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8 Feb 202131min

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