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Do you know your partner's hypothesis?
The problem-solving trick for the most difficult situations: meditation
How to set up your workstream well
Do you know what your partners need?
The silent killer of your problem-solving: implicit assumptions
How to change industry or practice?
The best slide of my career: example of conceptual problem-solving
Struggle with the imprecise nature of consulting?
Can't find critical data for analysis?
Avoid being staffed on a bad project
How I built my coaching business
What are the 2nd and 3rd level insights?
How to prepare for your start at an MBB firm
EM role is the best one at McKinsey
How to Structure Well: 5 Critical Tests
I believed McKinsey promotions were unfair
I thought at McKinsey great work would speak for itself
People often interrupted me at McKinsey
Every MBB consultant's biggest nightmare: Getting fired
McKinsey partner got upset when I gave him project update
The best EM I ever worked with only worked 4 days per week
One terrible project broke something in me
Invisible reason you lose your productivity
An Impossible Turnaround: from PIP to Promotion at BCG
Why you don't get impressive results even if you work very hard?
Why daily check-ins kill your team's productivity
I asked my wife to speak in a top-down way. Big mistake...
"I worked so hard to get into BCG. But I was fired after 18 months..." a BCG consultant shared
A powerful lesson of top executive communication
McKinsey is the most cut-throat consulting firm
What silently kills your reputation
A damaging mindset mistake experienced hires make
How to improve your performance as an EM
Don't lose momentum when it's needed the most - EM promotion
How do you coach consultants from different countries while accounting for differences cultures?
3 ways to impress your MBB partners
Difference between average and high performing feedback memos
Transitioning to an EM role at McKinsey?
Why performance reviews at McKinsey feel random and unfair
How a senior BCG consultant radically improved his performance
Improve the productivity of your teams as an EM
A BCG Consultant shared his main pain point
I pushed back McKinsey partners a lot
What I hated the most as a McKinsey manager
How surfing is similar to MBB consulting?
What should you optimize for in staffing?
How to use Visual Graphics correctly?
Every consultant needs an AP as a coach?
Sometimes I get these sad messages...
'You must be proud of being average in an MBB firm...' partners like to say
It was going well until it wasn't
I used to take at least 60 vacation days per year at McKinsey
A McKinsey senior partner shared a shocking story...
"Make me a dummy deck" your manager asks you
Imagine you must create a slide deck