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Guide to FIRMSconsulting Content

We produce an extensive list of podcasts, books, videos, slides and other media. This content guide can help you navigate your way through and build your career development plan. It’s helpful to remember that a leader gets things done. Therefore, always think about how to implement your ideas. We offer 6 services: Books—use in conjunction with video training programs to quickly grasp core skills. The Strategy Journal Succeeding as a Management Consultant The Strategy Engagement Marketing Saves the World Mavis Turquoise Eyes Slides—use our curated editable studies, tools, templates, proposals and letters to significantly reduce the time it takes to generate results, lower your costs and improve the quality of your work. Videos—gain mastery of core concepts to ensure that you solve the problem, implement the solution and bank the benefits. Coaching—to avoid roadblocks and trial-and-error, you can book 1-on-1 advice sessions in which a partner will evaluate your plan and help you develop a bespoke career strategy and solution. This is subject to availability and your admittance to the program. Coaching— Eligible to apply for 1-on-1 coaching only if referred by a prior coaching client. We do not accept applications without a referral. These are the longer coaching programs…

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We produce an extensive list of podcasts, books, videos, slides and other media. This content guide can help you navigate your way through and build your career development plan. It’s helpful to remember that a leader gets things done. Therefore, always think about how to implement your ideas. We offer 6 services: Books—use in conjunction with video training programs to quickly grasp core skills. The Strategy Journal Succeeding as a Management Consultant The Strategy Engagement Marketing Saves the World Mavis Turquoise Eyes Slides—use our curated editable studies, tools, templates, proposals and letters to significantly reduce the time it takes to…

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Strategy and Problem Solving Skills

Victoria, who wrote this blog piece and a few others, is a subscriber of The Consulting Offer (TCO). In this post, she elaborates the problem solving skills and other knowledge learned from TCO. Why I decided to write this blog? I though this is a great opportunity to share my journey of enhancing my strategy and problem solving skills with like minded aspiring management consultants or business professionals. I subscribed for The Consulting Offer, which is a joy as a learning tool and a wealth of information, and this blog will start from me going through session 7. As I was going through the training I realized that most people I worked with during my time in consulting, even very senior people, did not had the problem solving skills that one can acquire by going through such a detailed program. I also would like to mention that my motivation is primarily to develop strategy skills. This is my end goal. If this will lead to rejoining a great consulting firm, that will be a wonderful byproduct of my efforts. However, I want to develop strategy skills regardless of where my career will take me, because I believe that having these…

Victoria, who wrote this blog piece and a few others, is a subscriber of The Consulting Offer (TCO). In this post, she elaborates the problem solving skills and other knowledge learned from TCO. Why I decided to write this blog? I though this is a great opportunity to share my journey of enhancing my strategy and problem solving skills with like minded aspiring management consultants or business professionals. I subscribed for The Consulting Offer, which is a joy as a learning tool and a wealth of information, and this blog will start from me going through session 7. As I…

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Mistake in “The Mind of The Strategist”

I am going to discuss my experiences of working through Felix's session 8 videos. I spent 8 hours in total going through in great detail mainly because I did all the reading Firmsconsulting recommended. Preparation before the session: • I read news and business articles (mostly NewYorkTimes, Economist and Washington Post) every day to build my general knowledge (4-5 articles per day, mostly from the business section). Specifically, I try to select articles that pose a question that I can brainstorm prior to reading the article. • I worked through the first chapter of The mind of the strategist by Kenichi Ohmae, recommended by Firmsconsulting. The chapter is called “Analysis: the starting point”. Some key points to remember: o A strategic thinker should identify a critical issue, dissect the problem/situation into parts, get a clear understanding of each part, discover the significance of each part, and restructure parts into a new pattern to maximize the advantage. o The key question should be framed in a way that points towards the solution. This reminds me that Firmsconsulting seems to be the only firm teaching this clever way to structure problems. o The author presented a sample issue diagram, which was in a Yes/No decision tree format.…

I am going to discuss my experiences of working through Felix's session 8 videos. I spent 8 hours in total going through in great detail mainly because I did all the reading Firmsconsulting recommended. Preparation before the session: • I read news and business articles (mostly NewYorkTimes, Economist and Washington Post) every day to build my general knowledge (4-5 articles per day, mostly from the business section). Specifically, I try to select articles that pose a question that I can brainstorm prior to reading the article. • I worked through the first chapter of The mind of the strategist by Kenichi Ohmae, recommended by Firmsconsulting.…

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Up or Out Policy in Consulting – 6 Insights to Help You Get Promoted

Do you want to discover how to navigate the up or out policy in management consulting? When I started my journey in consulting, my answer to this question would have been, “Yes, a million times yes!”. Michael asked me to write about my experiences at consulting firms, how I navigated the up or out policy and managed to get promoted so quickly, well ahead of the normal schedule in both consulting and banking. Up or out policy in management consulting As I was embarking on my management consulting journey, I was quite concerned hearing so many stories of my acquaintances getting managed out after less than 2 years in consulting. I was determined to go up, not out. After all, I did my second undegraduate degree just so I could get into consulting. I studied like crazy to get all As, while working multiple jobs, and there were rivers of blood and sweat leading to that very desired consulting offer. So there was no chance in hell I was going to be one of those people to be labeled a “hiring mistake”. Not on my watch!   If you are not very familiar with consulting jargon you may be wondering, “what is exactly…

Do you want to discover how to navigate the up or out policy in management consulting? When I started my journey in consulting, my answer to this question would have been, “Yes, a million times yes!”. Michael asked me to write about my experiences at consulting firms, how I navigated the up or out policy and managed to get promoted so quickly, well ahead of the normal schedule in both consulting and banking. Up or out policy in management consulting As I was embarking on my management consulting journey, I was quite concerned hearing so many stories of my acquaintances…

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Implementation Study & Toolkit

At the end of December 2014 we published a post recapping our year at Firmsconsulting and providing a brief overview of our plans for 2015. We want to provide an update on our plans for 2015 so you know what to expect and how we are keeping to that schedule. More importantly, if you want us to change the schedule or our priorities, you can comment and let us know. We are going to focus this update on just one area where we need some guidance from readers. Implementation Executive Program Executive programs refer to the full studies we undertake and publish on our website: all the power points, videos, tool kits etc. like the merger study and LAB market entry study. We are planning to work on 4 studies this year. The market entry study is done and will be released shortly. The power sector corporate strategy transformation study has started and will be released shortly. In all likelihood, the power sector study will lead to a major implementation phase so that will be the next study. Finally, we are debating whether or not to do the BTO strategy study, operations or another study as the 4th study of…

At the end of December 2014 we published a post recapping our year at Firmsconsulting and providing a brief overview of our plans for 2015. We want to provide an update on our plans for 2015 so you know what to expect and how we are keeping to that schedule. More importantly, if you want us to change the schedule or our priorities, you can comment and let us know. We are going to focus this update on just one area where we need some guidance from readers. Implementation Executive Program Executive programs refer to the full studies we undertake…

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