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Dear Strategy 136: A New Year and a New Venture
Dear Strategy - January 19, 2024 20:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn this episode of Dear Strategy, we talk about how so many college graduates are ill-prepared by their educational institutions to enter the workforce – and how colleges should be paying more attention to this before somebody else does! If you’re interested in strategy training or coachin...
646: Courageous Leadership (with Best-selling author and Harvard Business School professor, Ranjay Gulati)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - January 17, 2024 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsWelcome to an interview with the author of Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, Ranjay Gulati. In his book, Ranjay reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when attempting to implement a reason for being. Moreover, he shows how companies can embed purpose mu...
645: Important case interview elements to consider (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - January 15, 2024 13:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we talk about important case interview elements to consider. Analyzing customers, competitors and the market: 3 areas which must always be considered in cases, even when it is not clear why. In essence, all ...
644: Brainstorming with definitions (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - January 10, 2024 13:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we talk about brainstorming with definitions. Brainstorming is very difficult and a crucial skill to have when solving cases, especially with McKinsey where the interviewer will constantly ask you to probe a...
643: Giving interviewers benefit of the doubt (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - January 08, 2024 13:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we talk about the importance of you, the candidate, never ever giving the interviewer the benefit of the doubt, why this is vital, how to do this in a case and the improvement it will immediately deliver. The ...
642: McKinsey Weak School (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - January 03, 2024 13:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsEntering BBM with a weak school on your resume can create problems. Though, all of them tend to be created by the candidates themselves. These consultants tend to have so many incorrect preconceived ideas of the firm that even when a McKinsey partner tells them something, they tend to go with th...
641: Building Hypotheses From Data Exhibits (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - January 01, 2024 13:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsReading graphs is a perennial problem for many candidates. Yet, the problem is not the interpretation of the graphical data itself. Rather, it is knowing what to do with that data once you have interpreted it. This podcast introduces a simple 4-step process we introduced for a Yale doctoral clie...
640: You Cannot Join McKinsey Strategy (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics) Published
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - December 27, 2023 13:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFar 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 their chances in the short, medium and long-term. This podcast explains why and how to compensate f...
639: Ignoring partners in an interview (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - December 25, 2023 11:57 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsYou 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! Here are some free gift...
638: Evaluating your firm's training (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - December 20, 2023 13:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor 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 training at consulting firms: do smaller offices have poorer training, should I attend training as ...
637: How to Develop Your Strategic Fitness (with New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Rich Horwath)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - December 18, 2023 13:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsWelcome to an interview with the author of Strategic, Rich Horwath. In his book, Rich delivers an incisive roadmap to help leaders at all levels think, plan, and act strategically to navigate every business challenge they face. The book offers business leaders a proven framework―the Strategic Fi...
636: Internal and External Strategies for Optimizing Your Sales Conversations and Communicating Solutions (with B2B Sales Expert, Rana Salman)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - December 13, 2023 13:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsWelcome to an interview with Rana Salman, M.B.A, PhD, a renowned expert in the sales industry who is transforming the performance of sales teams worldwide. With a background in marketing and years of experience in enterprise-level B2B sales, she has established herself as a trusted partner for g...
635: How to Disrupt a System That Was Built to Hold You Back (with Northwestern University Professor, Lan Nguyen Chaplin)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - December 11, 2023 13:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsWelcome to an interview with a Professor of Integrated Marketing Communications, at Northwestern University, Lan Nguyen Chaplin. In this episode, we focused on how to disrupt a system that was built to hold you back. We also touched on to move past an embarrassing moment at work. Lan Nguyen Ch...
635: How to influence your interviewer (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - December 06, 2023 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we discuss a client who is very good at influencing the way interviewers work with her, and the subtle danger of her approach. A counter-point to this is another candidate who initially completely mismanaged h...
634: How do you gain more experience? (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - December 04, 2023 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we discuss how to gain more experience. Many candidates are declined with the suggestion to gain more work experience. Unfortunately, candidates take this feedback at face value. This podcast explains what thi...
633: Key differences in Bain FIT questions (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - November 29, 2023 13:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we discuss key differences in Bain FIT questions. In looking through our database of over 240 former clients and speaking to Bain partners we know, we see two unique ways a Bain fit interview differs from a ...
632: A guide to hiring the best talent (with CEO and Founder of Vanderbloemen Search Group, William Vanderbloemen)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - November 27, 2023 13:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsWelcome to an interview with the author of Be the Unicorn: 12 Data-Driven Habits that Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest, William Vanderbloemen. In his book, William reveals how job seekers, employees, hiring managers and company leaders everywhere can stand out from their peers and become ...
631: The Power of Conscious Connection (with CEO OF KUSI Global, Inc. and Harvard University Fellow, Talia Fox)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - November 22, 2023 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsWelcome to an interview with the author of The Power of Conscious Connection: 4 Habits to Transform How You Live and Lead. In this book, Talia shares her methodology for transforming how we live and lead by first tapping into our own power so that we can make choices that align best with what re...
630: Leadership and the Longing to Belong (with CEO and co-founder of Reboot.io, Jerry Colonna)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - November 20, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsWelcome to an interview with the author of Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong, Jerry Colonna. In this book, Jerry guides us on a journey of reunification with the disowned parts of ourselves, the myths and truths of our ancestors, as well as a deeper connection with those most affecte...
629: Bonus vs. salary resume editing (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - November 15, 2023 13:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we discuss bonus versus salary resume. Bonus versus salary resume is a very simple test we do on resumes. This podcast explains the test. We basically look at whether or not a bullet point explains an action...
628: Economic impact of poor business judgement (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - November 13, 2023 13:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor 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 topic we managed every day as partners. Each time an associate made a poor “common sense” decis...
627: USA Champion Gymnast turned entrepreneur & VC, Lisa Carmen Wang — Overcoming Good Girl Brainwashing
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - November 08, 2023 13:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsWelcome to an interview with the author of The Bad Bitch Business Bible, Lisa Carmen Wang. The Bad Bitch Business Bible is Lisa’s no-holds-barred guide for women who want to break free of Good Girl Brainwashing and take charge of their bodies, boundaries, and bank accounts. Interweaving intimate...
626: Generating multiple creative hypotheses (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - November 06, 2023 12:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor 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. In essence, the podcast will be useful to candidates who have already seen how we brainstorm and ...
625: McKinsey senior partner networking success (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - November 01, 2023 12:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor 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 from weaker schools, to network with the most senior partners of consulting firms. This is a po...
624: Why should you bring energy to the interview? (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - October 30, 2023 12:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor 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 determine the energy levels, tone and mood of the call. That is a bad idea. In our experience, the b...
623: How AI Will Return Communication To Its Most Natural Form: Voice (with President of WillowTree, Tobias Dengel)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - October 25, 2023 12:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsWelcome to an interview with the author of The Sound of the Future: The Coming Age of Voice Technology, Tobias Dengel. In his new book, Tobias answers why voice technology is the next big thing in technology, as big as mobile a decade ago and the internet in the late 90s, fundamentally altering ...
622: Making sexist comments in interviews (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - October 23, 2023 12:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we speak about candidates making sexist comments in interviews. Due to culture, tradition and even good intentions, candidates make sexist remarks. Sometimes, a very innocent remark may come across as sexist...
621: How to get to $500k per month in 4 years (with Samuel Moses)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - October 18, 2023 12:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsI recently had a great conversation with Sam Moses, which I think you will enjoy. We speak about how Sam managed to build a $500k in revenue per month business in just 4 years. We cover a lot of ground in this episode. Sam shares the most important points that anyone planning to start a busine...
620: Estimation Sensitivities During Calculations (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - October 16, 2023 12:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratingsFor this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we look at how to make estimations when calculating smaller values or working with enclosed spaces like restaurants, the importance of sensitivity analyses and a new limitation of demand-driven cases. This is ...
619: Private Equity Firm CEO on Power, Success and Getting Results (with Rick Walker)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking - October 11, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratingsWelcome to an interview with an experienced founder, leader, and thinker across a variety of domains, Rick Walker. In this episode, Rick walks us through his leadership journey, how he built his first company in his 20's, the lessons he learned across multiple domains, and how he was able to d...
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