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Business leaders, executives, management consultants, business analysts, internal consultants, and, in fact, everyone in business relies on correct and sound advice to make critical decisions. You must be able to trust the source, and you do not have the time to fact-check. The difference with the field of business, strategy and analyses in general is…
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Drowning in mediocrity
Drowning in mediocrity One important point to consider when building your career or business is the consistency of your brand. One company that inspires me when it comes to brand consistency is Disney. Simple things like painting fence posts at Disney World are considered marketing by Disney and approached accordingly. They understand that every detail contributes…
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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…
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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…
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Digital Transformation Consulting: Top Challenges
Digital Transformation Consulting: Top Challenges The Digital Transformation consulting space is one of the most lucrative and stressful right now. Today, I had an insightful discussion with Raj (name changed to protect his privacy), a technology leader in the digital transformation space working for a major consulting firm. We spoke about the critical challenges he…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Understanding Risk in Strategy
Every Single Strategy Has Its Unique Risk Start with understanding risk in an investment strategy A business strategy tries to solve a set of problems to increase returns while minimizing risk. The return side is well-covered with numerous tools, analytics and frameworks to more or less accurately estimate free cash-flow, economic profit, NOPAT, enterprise value,…
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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…
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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…