Competition in the workplace: competing with a high-performing consultant
Competition in the workplace: competing with a high-performing consultant https://firmsconsulting.com/quarterly/competing-high-performing-consultant/ Competition in the workplace is the reality at any high performing organization, be it Amazon, McKinsey, BCG, Bain or Google. So if you want to work at a leading organization its impossible to avoid having to compete with your collegues. I recently had a few discussions with Michael about a high-performing associate at the firm who was overshadowing me. Michael invited me to contribute this article based on my experiences and the actions I took to differentiate myself and change my profile. While it took a few months for the results to show, I was eventually able to build a very strong profile for myself and receive numerous positive endorsements from partners and directors. I was recently staffed on a project that would last for a few months and, therefore, my performance on this engagement was very important for my standing in the firm. A guy on that project, lets call him Mike, was at the associate level and had a legendary reputation. Many felt that Mike was one level below the level he should have been at. In fact it was not clear why he was an associate since…