425: How to build a successful startup (with Matt Blumberg)

Clients using the Consulting Offer Videos fit into a neat bimodal distribution.

17 Okt 20147min

The first 3 minutes of a coaching session, practice session and case interview determines everything. First impressions count.

11 Okt 201411min

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

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

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

I want to talk about three incidences and what it says about how women think about themselves.

17 Sep 201424min

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

Most aspiring management consultants will spend about 95% of their time focusing on the technical issues to fix their case performance. That is, they focus on hypotheses, frameworks, decision trees, structures and calculations. However, what if that is not the areas which will yield the greatest gains?

5 Sep 201412min