Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
StrategyTraining.com & FirmsConsulting.com
Firmsconsulting maintains a 80% success rate at placing clients within McKinsey, BCG and Bain. This is the highest in the industry and the rate is higher if we include other firms. We achieve this rate because we only use former partners from McKinsey, BCG et al to develop our clients. This makes us unique. We never use analysts, associates, engagement managers or associate principals. We also carefully select and develop clients on their communication, image, technical and case interview skills. This podcast channel describes our lessons from training our clients.
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Episodes
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Jul 21, 2015 • 49min
274: How to Become a Management Consultant
Our managing partner Michael Boricki gave an interview at Accepted, a well known site for MBA admission.
Jul 15, 2015 • 17min
273: Changing a Consulting Firm
This podcast is a response to the email below. The client wanted to know how to change a consulting firm so that her firm could compete against McKinsey.
Jul 9, 2015 • 25min
272: Am I a dumb black kid?
This podcast is a controversial and thoughtful response to a letter from a reader who overheard his career counselor describing him as a "dumb black kid" who "has no future in business."
Jul 3, 2015 • 20min
271: Value Modelling: fad or fashion?
In this podcast we look at the rise of value modelling as a shiny new management technique in 2003 and its implosion in 2009. Value modelling is a lot like other big trends like the balance scorecard, business process re-engineering etc. which went belly-up.
Jun 27, 2015 • 11min
270: Strategy Insight Ratio
Young consultants make some very common mistakes when they start out, and I explain how to use the strategy insight ratio to correct these problems.
Jun 21, 2015 • 12min
269: Misunderstanding "Being Analytic"
Aspiring and some young consultants tend to have a narrow outside-in view of management consulting. They make significant assumptions about why and how strategy studies are done, and try to replicate this assumed behavior. They think "being analytic" means analyzing things before every decision is made.
Jun 15, 2015 • 16min
268: What Michael Jordan Can Teach You About Strategy
Aspiring NBA stars make a classic mistake when trying to watch, analyze and replicate the reasons why someone like Michael Jordan was so successful. In this podcast I explain why aspiring management consultants and those in industry make the very same mistake when watching, analyzing and replicating the reasons why McKinsey and BCG are so successful.
Jun 9, 2015 • 22min
267: Strategy Training Changes at Firmsconsulting
[Update June 11] The 1st strategy training map is live! All 16 steps of strategy planning and 200+ critical points are complimentary to all our members!
Jun 3, 2015 • 20min
266: Case Studies in Strategy Projects
It is fair to say that being assigned to develop the case studies to help a team on the strategy study is considered a dead-end role for most consultants. An associate or analyst would much rather want to be leading the corporate strategy analyses, business case or even the business unit analyses versus studying how other companies have tackled the same problem as the client.
May 28, 2015 • 21min
265: Client Lessons: Stanford Masters Student
This podcast was prepared for clients in our case coaching program. Each week I will consolidate the main questions and challenges clients are facing in the program and use these podcasts to communicate suggestions and advice to your unique preparation needs.
