700: Sanity Checking Estimations in Cases (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

700: Sanity Checking Estimations in Cases (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

Many candidates forget to sanity-check their calculations in a case. That is a bad idea. Without a sanity-check there is no way to meaningfully assess the accuracy of your answer. More important, how you perform the sanity check is the key. All sanity-checks must involve the reduction of the answer to a number that you can intuitively compare to your own experiences. Unless you do this, you can never defend your answer.

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796: You Cannot Join McKinsey Strategy (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

796: You Cannot Join McKinsey Strategy (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

Far too many candidates demonstrate poor knowledge of consulting by insisting that they want to work for McKinsey strategy and not operations or BTO. This is a flawed strategy which will only hurt the...

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795: Ignoring partners in an interview (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

795: Ignoring partners in an interview (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

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 simpl...

7 Juli 20259min

794: Evaluating your firm's training (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

794: Evaluating your firm's training (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we discuss consulting firm's training.   Too often clients ask the wrong questions when it comes to assessing tra...

2 Juli 202513min

793: Economic impact of poor business judgement (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

793: Economic impact of poor business judgement (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we discuss the economic impact of poor business judgement. The economic impact of poor business judgement, is a...

30 Juni 20258min

792: Psychologist and New York Times Best-Selling Author on the Discipline of Letting Go

792: Psychologist and New York Times Best-Selling Author on the Discipline of Letting Go

In this reflective conversation, psychologist and author Dr. Bob Rosen examines the unspoken attachments that often shape executive behavior, frequently without conscious awareness. His framework, dra...

25 Juni 202525min

791: Generating multiple creative hypotheses (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

791: Generating multiple creative hypotheses (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic, building of our technique to develop hypotheses, this podcast explains a clever way to generate creative hypotheses. I...

23 Juni 20257min

790: McKinsey senior partner networking success (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

790: McKinsey senior partner networking success (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we share a networking success story with a McKinsey senior partner.   We always ask our clients, especially those...

18 Juni 202510min

789: Why should you bring energy to the interview? (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

789: Why should you bring energy to the interview? (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we discuss why you should bring energy to the interview.   Lots of candidates leave it to the interviewer to dete...

16 Juni 20256min

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