364: What should be my company's strategy
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
Release Date: 02/27/2020
675: How to Be Productive (with Google's Laura Mae Martin)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
Welcome to an interview with the author of Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing, Laura Mae Martin. In her book, Laura shows how to thrive no matter where you’re working, giving concrete steps that help you focus on your priorities and keep good systems, routines, and tactics in place. Uptime explains how to make technology work for you and make “feeling on top of it” your new normal. It’s a blueprint for operating at the highest levels of productivity while enhancing your own personal well-being. Laura Mae Martin is the Executive...
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674: Selling Services to PE Firms with Aimably’s Founder and Stanford Grad, Claire Milligan
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
Welcome to an interview with Claire Milligan, a Stanford graduate turned startup founder. Claire helps businesses grow by spending smarter and reducing their cloud costs. Her target market is PE firms. In this episode, we discuss what PE firms care about, how to approach them, the biggest challenges and potential solutions they encounter, as well as the sales process and lead time. Whether she’s helping businesses transform their cloud spending or hitting the slopes as a ski patroller, Claire Milligan thrives on distilling complex problems down to their core issues — and...
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673: Difference between learning and practicing (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
99% of clients misunderstand learning and practicing. At its essence, you cannot practice McKinsey cases until you learn McKinsey cases. Most candidates start of their case interview preparation by reaching out to colleagues and consultants to practice cases, not having gone through the learning steps. Without a good strategy of separating learning from practicing you will simply absorb what you hear in the practice sessions and none of that is designed to teach you how to do cases. You must separate the learning from the practicing. Here are some free gifts for you: Overall Approach...
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672: AI’s brainstorming and problem-solving potential with Stanford University’s Jeremy Utley
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
Welcome to an interview with the co-author of the inspiring new Generative AI study, Jeremy Utley. This episode highlights the common mistakes and missed opportunities many corporate teams and individuals make when using AI. Too often, individuals treat AI as a mere search engine, leading to answers that fall short of actual solutions. Jeremy Utley is an adjunct professor specializing in creativity and entrepreneurship at Stanford University, where he has taught design thinking and creativity to nearly one million students of innovation worldwide. In 2023, he was named a top...
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671: Anecdotes on Poor Networking Calls (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
In this podcast we have listed some of the most common and most significant networking mistakes made by candidates. Since many of these have been made by clients, we have had an opportunity to discuss the mistakes, their motivations, the fall out and their response. Therefore, we can provide a comprehensive discussion on the implications of these mistakes. In general, no matter how badly a McKinsey partner networking call may go, you have little to fear. Here are some free gifts for you: Overall Approach Used in Well-Managed Strategy Studies free download: McKinsey...
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670: Harsh Partners (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
Being a young business analyst or associate on the receiving end of blunt and harsh feedback from a partner is a very jarring experience. However, it is also somewhat of a compliment. I never understand this very, very important point until my mentor, a senior partner, pointed this out to me when the managing partner gave me a very time about an initiative I was running. In hindsight, this was one of the most profound lessons I had in my consulting career, and the managing partner became a huge ally when I was up for partnership. Here are some free gifts for you: Overall Approach Used...
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669: Using Storytelling In Cases (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
Storytelling is a very powerful technique to ensure someone remembers you after an interview. In fact, even when we screen people at Firmsconsulting today, we use this technique I applied as a partner. The rule is simple: if I can remember your key messages from the interview the next day, I would make you an offer. That, of course, assumes you had passed all the other hurdles well enough. One way to be remembered is to be your answers around compelling stories using the New York Times rule of facts, facts and facts with a beginning and end. Here are some free gifts for you: Overall...
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668: Digital strategy expert, Venkat Venkatraman. How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
Welcome to an interview with the coauthor of Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future, Venkat Venkatraman. In Fusion Strategy, digital strategy expert Venkat Venkatraman and world-renowned innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan offer a first-of-its-kind playbook that will help industrial companies combine what they do best—create physical products—with what digitals do best—use algorithms and AI to parse expansive, interconnected datasets—to make strategic connections that would otherwise be impossible. Venkat Venkatraman is the...
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667: Five phrases to avoid (Case Interview & Management Consulting classics)
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
Communication and image in a case interview is governed by both what you say and how you say. It is true that how you say something tends to carry more weight. However, in some case, certain phrases should definitely be avoided because they cause much damage it is very hard to recover from them. We discuss them in this podcast. Here are some free gifts for you: Overall Approach Used in Well-Managed Strategy Studies free download: McKinsey & BCG winning resume free download: Enjoying this episode? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: ...
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666: One of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation, Vijay “VG” Govindarajan. How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
Welcome to an interview with the coauthor of Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future. In Fusion Strategy, world-renowned innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan and digital strategy expert Venkat Venkatraman offer a first-of-its-kind playbook that will help industrial companies combine what they do best—create physical products—with what digitals do best—use algorithms and AI to parse expansive, interconnected datasets—to make strategic connections that would otherwise be impossible. Vijay “VG” Govindarajan is widely regarded as...
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