StrategyU

OCTOBER 6, 2024

All these places had leaders who said the right things and talked about building cultures of high performance, high standards, and excellence but the lived reality always fell short. In my experience, senior consulting leaders overlook the delicate connection between the business model, and specifically pricing, and high-performing behavior.

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StrategyU

MAY 29, 2024

Who wouldn’t want to test a candidate’s problem-solving abilities (rather than hear about them in the traditional behavioral interview)? The Most Famous Case Practice Book Marc Cosentino has the best business plan for books: write one that almost everyone who wants to work in consulting has to buy.

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StrategyU

JANUARY 27, 2021

Every business in the world has been grappling with this and therefore, as an advisor to those businesses, I’ve helped them think through that. My familiarity with boosting financial performance? Laszlo Bock wrote the famous book, Work Rules!, Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Consultants do use frameworks to guide their thinking, though not the laundry list you’ll see in case interview prep books. Framework #2: The McKinsey 7-S Framework Aligns Your Organization for Success Imagine you’re trying to improve your company’s or team’s performance, but you’re not sure where to start.

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StrategyU

JULY 5, 2020

Instead of shop floor experience, McKinsey was a Professor who had taught at schools like Columbia University and The University of Chicago, had obtained his CPA and also wrote a book titled Budgetary Control. In the 1960’s when he walked away from the firm, he sold back his shares at book value instead of cashing out with guaranteed riches.

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StrategyU

JUNE 12, 2021

His ideas were brought to the forefront through his book Unsafe At Any Speed that highlighted the shortcuts car manufacturers made during the production of cars which included no seatbelts. This is the secret sauce of any high-performing organization but can be hard to recognize if you were not there at the beginning.

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