The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

#123 McKinsey Partner to Indie Freelancer - Adam Braff on writing online, the gig economy, consulting skills, consulting

Nov 28, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
2
MIT - Is There a Course 24 in Linguistics?
03:46 • 4min
3
What Was It Like From 99 to 2002?
07:21 • 3min
4
McKinsey - What Was the Journey Like?
10:07 • 2min
5
Are You Leaving Operations?
11:45 • 2min
6
What Are Some of the Biggest Things That Keep You in Consulting?
13:49 • 3min
7
What Do People Get Wrong About McKinsey?
16:48 • 3min
8
Is There a Growth Imperative?
19:32 • 2min
9
What Are the Newest Ideas in Customer Experience at McKinsey?
21:56 • 3min
10
Turning Data Into Insights
24:47 • 3min
11
Influencing Senior Executives
27:35 • 2min
12
What Skills Do You Wish More People Had From Consulting?
29:28 • 2min
13
Do You Have a Pyramid Principle for Developing a Culture of Excellence?
31:10 • 3min
14
McKinsey and the DGL
34:05 • 2min
15
What Did You Learn From Working at a Hedge Fund?
36:03 • 4min
16
How to Profitably Spend More Time on the Get the Data Step
39:50 • 3min
17
The World of Billions Inspired You to Go Solo?
42:44 • 2min
18
Will Bachman and Venkatesh Rao
45:10 • 2min
19
What Have You Learned About Freelancing?
47:03 • 3min
20
Is Writing a Central Thing for Finding Clients?
49:46 • 3min
21
Is the Nature of Your Analytics Consulting Changing?
52:18 • 2min
22
AI and the Self-Employed Life
53:57 • 3min
23
Data and Analytics Consulting - What You've Learned Along the Way?
56:56 • 2min
24
The Pathless Path
58:40 • 3min