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 useful things were discussed but never captured.
23 Okt 201424min
222: Using The Consulting Offer Videos Effectively
Clients using the Consulting Offer Videos fit into a neat bimodal distribution.
17 Okt 20147min
221: The First 3 Minutes of a Case Interview
The first 3 minutes of a coaching session, practice session and case interview determines everything. First impressions count.
11 Okt 201411min
220: Why Candidates Fail to Succeed
This is an important and wide ranging podcast around the theme of why candidates fail and some key observations from Felix in The Consulting Offer Season 1.
5 Okt 201443min
219: Are Some Consulting Club Leaders Selfish?
The concept of a Management Consulting Club is great, but the execution leaves little to be desired. Very few clubs are actually run by presidents/executive council members who know anything about consulting, or worse, care about their members.
29 Sep 201415min
218: Ignoring partners in an interview
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 simply providing hypotheses even when the interview is not asking for them!
23 Sep 20149min
217: Women are their own worst enemies
I want to talk about three incidences and what it says about how women think about themselves.
17 Sep 201424min
216: Choosing Boutique Firms over McKinsey
Choosing a boutique firm as one path into management consulting is a popular choice. While boutique consulting firm appear to operate like McKinsey and BCG, and may even be led by ex-partners, there business models typical mean they create overwhelmingly different experiences for their consultants.
11 Sep 201430min
