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

AUGUST 22, 2023

Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Our division had a successful quarter, beating the competition by 2% in revenue. This might help you prepare for a negative reaction from a manager by more easily letting you practice going through the experience beforehand.

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This is why consulting can feel more like therapy than business problem-solving. This is the value of a consultant, the ability to continue to search for the problem behind the problem. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? In consulting, things are always changing.

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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? Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? That will come over.

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

People who were excellent at executing struggled to take a step back and be a thought partner with the client, helping design a longer more strategic approach to a problem. #7 7 No one is responsible for the process With almost everyone I’ve worked with, I ask them, “Who is responsible for obsessing over your internal process and performance?”

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StrategyU

MAY 29, 2024

I suspect the test was more of a general intelligence and reasoning test (which CAN be predictive of job performance). It also puts into perspective how silly it is to ask someone to riff on a make-believe problem delivered differently in each interview. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? MECE presentations are always more clear and more persuasive.

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StrategyU

APRIL 19, 2022

If you really wanted to jump from Business Analyst to Associate at McKinsey for example, that is definitely a possible path if you are a top performer. In this case, you likely would have to spend an additional six months or year in the BA role and it might come with the title “Senior Business Analyst.”

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StrategyU

JUNE 12, 2021

This is the secret sauce of any high-performing organization but can be hard to recognize if you were not there at the beginning. Edgar Schein, one of the leading thinkers on corporate culture, defined culture as a group of people “who have been together long enough to have shared significant problems.”

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StrategyU

JULY 5, 2020

Despite all these bets, the big three still derive most of their income from traditional long-term consulting engagements with large businesses, which are still performing well. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Special thanks to Antoine Buteau for his contributions to this essay.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? To achieve this, the board engages Willis Towers Watson, a compensation consulting firm, to conduct a compensation benchmarking analysis.

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