709: Discuss your analytic skills, sample answer (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
In this series of podcasts we look at each of the typical McKinsey/BCG FIT/PEI questions and provide a typical answer. Note, that while replicating this approach and standard will help you, we caution...
4 Sep 20249min
708: Building a business and professional brand from the ground up (with 3.4 million followers minister, Dr. Sam Adeyemi)
Welcome to an interview with Dr. Sam Adeyemi (Ah Day yeh me), a global speaker, strategic leadership expert, minister, and author who has influenced millions of people on success and leadership throug...
2 Sep 202453min
707: How Family Ghosts End Up in the Executive Suite (with MIT Professor Deborah Ancona)
Welcome to an interview with Deborah Ancona, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. In this episode, we explore "family ghosts," a rarely discussed to...
28 Aug 202448min
706: How to overcome career frustrations (with New York University's Dr. Tessa West)
Welcome to an interview with the author of Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You, Dr. Tessa West. In her book, Dr. Tessa West helps you figure out the real reason you're unhappy and shows you h...
26 Aug 20241h 1min
705: What is Business Judgement (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
You cannot and will not improve your case skills from practicing case alone. "Case skills" refers to a variety of skills including body language, communication and especially business judgement. Busin...
21 Aug 202410min
704: Important Case Guidance (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
In our ongoing series of podcasts, we again introduce new advice about case interviews or sometimes view an old topic in a different manner. The objective of these podcasts is to explain concepts like...
19 Aug 202411min
703: Myths about Management Consulting (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
This general podcast describes some of the common misconceptions applicants and even practicing McKinsey/BCG consultants have about their own firms. It will be useful to anyone who wants to understand...
14 Aug 202412min
702: How to Turn a Profit and Improve Lives in the World's Toughest Places (with Former McKinsey partner, Viva Ona Bartkus)
Welcome to an interview with the coauthor of Business on the Edge: How to Turn a Profit and Improve Lives in the World's Toughest Places, Viva Ona Bartkus. In this book, they argue that by entering ma...
12 Aug 202448min
