NEW EPISODES: Analyzing a Strategy Partner’s Career

What does it take to become... The Youngest Partner Running a Key Practice We just released new episodes of the much anticipated Analyzing a Strategy Partner's Career program (24 episodes overall). Here are the new episodes you can look forward to (40 minutes of new riveting, thought-provoking transformational training): ASPC 21 Where Will You Master the Business Side of Things (10:33) ASPC 22 Know Your Knock-In And Knock-Out Metrics (08:50) ASPC 23 Why Functional (Domain) Specialization is a Bad Sales Model (08:19) ASPC 24 Formal Training Does Not Help Trailblazers (12:09) Some points we cover: - Four activities that taught Michael the business side of things (Ep 21 2:00) - One ability that changed Michael's entire career (Ep 21 3:00) - Transforming a country into a regional powerhouse (Ep 21 4:30) - Skills that most people don't learn (Ep 21 8:00) - A plan for learning these skills (Ep 21 9:00) - From being someone good at analyses to being someone who leads organizations (Ep 21 10:00) - Knock-in and knock-out metrics. The thing that knocked you in or out of the game (Ep 22 1:48) - Running 6 engagements back to back (Ep 22 2:45) - Understanding knock-in criteria for different levels. How is power generated (Ep 22 4:10)…

New [431 SLIDES] – Corporate Training Center of Excellence (Update 2)

We have just released the second update (90 SLIDES) for the Corporate Training Center of Excellence in the Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level (overall 431 SLIDES). *** Why is this CoE different and important? Corporate employees who work alongside elite management consultants need to ramp up their skills to the level of the best consultants, but they typically only receive a day to a week, at most, of training. And it's not even full-time training. So, the training must be distilled into what is truly necessary for someone who does not have a consultant's background. They do not have the luxury of learning the skills over the years. This CoE, which we will continue to update, teaches only those primary critical skills that corporate employees must learn. It is designed to be studied over a week at most. This is a crucial difference versus consultants who learn over the years and receive feedback from partners. This is a CoE where you work alone with no guidance. It was a highly requested CoE and is based on the actual programs we teach corporate employees who need to operate at the level of elite consultants. *** Corporate professionals need and want to learn the skills…

The Powell Doctrine

The Powell Doctrine "When McKinsey arrives at a client’s office and wants to present a recommendation, it may get challenged at times. But most of the time, it will not be. The same applies to BCG, Bain, and other top firms. I will use a military analogy, but please do not treat your client as the enemy! With McKinsey, in many ways, we see the firm’s intellectual army. It shows you its overwhelming intellectual superiority so that it will not be challenged by alums, publications, awards, or influence. That is why these firms invest so much time in these things. In military terms, this is called the Powell Doctrine. It means deploying such overwhelming resources to a situation that the enemy capitulates just by looking at what they are up against. The Powell Doctrine does not mean going to intellectual war, or any war for that matter. It means showing the opposing side that they should not even consider attacking/resisting. What happens when you are a boutique firm of ex-consultants from major firms? If no one knows you well, how can they know the advantage you have? How can they know the army you have behind you? It is a little like…

Dealing with Fear and Need to Feel Important

Dealing with Fear and Need to Feel Important I would like to discuss today dealing with one of the qualities that rob people of the ability to influence and have gravitas. And you probably guessed already what it is. We are talking about arrogance and the damage to people’s lives when they are primarily driven by the need tp feel important. “Pride goeth before a fall.” proverb Of course, we are not talking about the pride you feel when you accomplish something hard or the pride you feel about your friend mastering some new skill. We are talking about the kind of pride that makes people... - Not ask for help at the risk of appearing inferior. They want to always appear as if they have everything figured out (even though it suffocates their ability to learn and improve) - Believe they have already achieved enough and they are entitled to certain things - Think they should not start something new at the risk of looking inferior in some way (imagine the damage this causes to their life) - Have a shark’s (vs. dolphin's) view of the world: believing they can only win if others lose. The pie is only that big. They want…

Affiliate Program – StrategyTraining.com

The StrategyTraining.com Affiliate Program If you enjoy our programs and want to help your peers, we want to pay you for that. You can enjoy a lifetime recurring 33% commission on any of the memberships from our audio and video or reading training libraries via StrategyTraining.com Affiliate Program. You may have gotten benefits out of the memberships, or you might already be referring people, and we will be happy to pay you for your referrals. If you refer 3 people, you'll pretty much get your membership for free. So, you will be helping your colleagues out and getting a membership at no cost. And if you refer 4 or more people, now you're getting your membership for free and getting extra recurring revenue doing something that you might be doing anyway, which is helping out your peers by sharing great training resources. There are benefits beyond just the commission. If you are part of a team or a leader of a team, and you share it with people in your team, that’s going to elevate your whole team. So not only are you going to earn a commission for recommending it, but now you are going to be leveling up the success of your team…

The Psychology of a Leader

The Psychology of a Leader "The issue here is that it has a lot to do with the psychology of a leader. And it's about timing. You have to create the opportunity when all of the psychological things that hold you back are in sync." Innovating an Industrial Giant The most common refrain we get from clients when we're working with them is that they always insist and push us towards wanting to know what they must do and how much they must do it. And if we don't get into those details, some clients become quite frustrated. As if we are holding them back because if we could just tell them what to do and how to do it, they would be very successful. But that is not true. Assume you had the chance to spend one hour with Stephen Curry. Stephen is wildly and widely, and I am choosing those two words for a reason, regarded as one of the greatest basketball point guards of all time. So you have an hour to work with him. And in that hour, he will show you how to do a 3 pointer, and you've never seen a three pointer before. A three pointer is when you shoot…

EB1A Green Card – An Alien of Extraordinary Ability

Here is another client on a path to green card approval. You can be next. How? There are 2 options. #1) One is you can work through the new EB1A Green Card - An Alien of Extraordinary Ability online program that will soon become available to Insiders and Legacy members, as well as the shorter program, USA Immigration/Citizenship Best Practices From Our Most Successful Clients, already available to Insiders and Legacy members on StrategyTraining.com. #2) You can apply to work with us personally over 1 year or so period to help you work toward qualifying for An Alien of Extraordinary Ability green card or a similar self-sponsored green card. An important side effect of this work is you will be implementing steps that can help you progress significantly faster in your career. Option 1 - Online Program You can learn about the earlier released shorter program here. In this section let's zoom in on a new mega program we will be releasing for Insiders and Legacy members: EB1A Green Card - An Alien of Extraordinary Ability program. Not one client with whom we have worked to secure their EB-1A or another self-sponsored green card met or was on the path…

Rolling Out AI + Cloud at a Fortune 500 Company. $30MM / Year Contract

Rolling Out AI + Cloud at a Fortune 500 Company. $30MM / Year Contract Exclusive to FIRMSconsulting Insider and Legacy members. Enroll as an Insider or Legacy member here (scroll for membership options). If you would like to receive sample episodes of our Insider content, please opt-in to our newsletter and receive a free gift. This is the only way to receive sample Insider content. This is not a program about winning a consulting study. It is not about advice alone. Make no mistake, those are challenging goals but relatively easier than what we did in this program. This is an engineering challenge about figuring out (the technical, operating, and business strategy) and rolling out (engineering implementation) one of the most important and complex technologies. Abhishek* is a mid-level sales executive at a major technology company. Despite its hefty balance sheet, enormous R&D budget, and incredibly talented engineers, the company has been out-maneuvered by fierce and determined competitors. Now, they are facing foreign competition. They lost the smartphone war. They are losing the cloud war. They are losing the big data war. They are not even seen as competitive in AI, despite having an early lead. Morale is low. There are significant turf wars and…

Shu Ha Ri: Model of Skill Mastery