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Long-form essays, field notes, and frameworks from the FIRMSconsulting team — published weekly.
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The immigrant discount
The immigrant discount As a management consultant, I once worked on a landmark study that became significant for the firm. I managed to turn around the study when it was running well behind schedule. I ended up playing a key role in a road show to raise funding to launch a financial services company in Eastern…
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What is an IT Consultant
What Is an IT Consultant and How To Become One IT consultants assist clients with technology-related issues. It involves such work as developing technology strategies (which, of course, should be done based on business unit strategy, which in turn should be based on corporate strategy). IT consultants also conduct technology assessments, where they evaluate a…
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Strategy Training Programs (www.StrategyTraining.com)
We have numerous strategy studies on our StrategyTraining.com website, both the video explanations and the editable slides (seperate membership, access to our knowledge management system). We teach from first-principles only. While you will see frameworks and processes, we teach you how to develop them and why we developed them. This means our training is more detailed…
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Are Professional Immigrants Great Leaders?
As someone who immigrated 3 times in my life, I am part of a group that I call professional immigrants. Meaning, I am really good at navigating the steps needed to pick up my life and move to another country where I don’t know anyone, and build a professional career and life there. I can…
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What Makes a Leader
In this post let’s focus on what makes a leader. Let’s assume you are a member (Insider or Legacy) of StrategyTraining.com and using the programs to progress in your career. Which of the following outcomes do you hope to achieve as an Insider or Legacy member, and would you be satisfied if you achieved them?…
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Strategic Challenges
Strategic Challenges In this post we will examine some strategic challenges that may arise. We will also look at an example of effectively dealing with strategic challengs. The creation of a strategy would be simple if we had a clear understanding of all causal connections between actions and outcomes. But this is not how the…
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How to forgive yourself
How to forgive yourself I work with many senior clients. Executives at major banks, managers, principals, partners at consulting firms, managers and above at large tech companies, entrepreneurs, etc. Because StrategyTraining.com and the programs within our mentoring programs already have very thorough skills training, our mentoring 1:1 calls are often focused on implementation. And implementation requires removing all…
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Customer Care as a Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Customer Care as a Sustainable Competitive Advantage In today’s post I was to talk about how customer care, client care, can be source of a sustainable competitive advantage. And I am not only talking here about customer care or client care department that answers customers emails or speaks to customers on the phone. I am…
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Case Interview 101 – Management Consulting Interview Guide
Consulting Case Interview 101 – Management Consulting Interview Guide In this post we are going to cover foundational things you need to know to prepare for consulting case interviews. Case interview is a type of interview consulting firms use to select consulting candidates. Case interviews help consulting firms test candidate’s analytical abilities as well as…