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Long-form essays, field notes, and frameworks from the FIRMSconsulting team — published weekly.
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How can you prepare for a recession 2020
How can you prepare for a recession 2020 We are all thinking about this. How can I prepare for a recession? How can national lockdown not lead to it? As the COVID-19 continues to sweep across the globe, it’s disrupting industries from restaurants to hotels, to airlines, to event planning. How can basically a worldwide…
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What is the CEO’s role?
What is the CEO’s role? The CEO’s role is to be the top executive of of a company who is responsible for key decisions such as overall strategy, managing overall operations. Here are some key responsibilities of a CEO: The CEO’s role is to determine company’s business model. The CEO has to define and adjust…
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Change Management (Global leader of McKinsey Organization Practice)
Change Management (Global leader of McKinsey Organization Practice) Leading large-scale change at your business is urgent, but how do you overcome the challenge change management presents? Interview with McKinsey & Company Global Leader Bill Schaninger, coauthor of BEYOND PERFORMANCE 2.0: A Proven Approach to Leading Large-Scale Change (Wiley, July 11, 2019) about: How to know when your company is ready for large-scale…
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How to elevate professional skills and get your team to number one across the US
How to elevate professional skills and get your team to number one across the US Below we share with you a video and transcript of the interview with Denise Harris, one of our amazing FIRMSconsulting Insiders. Denise shares how she used FIRMSconsulting’s training programs to strengthen her professional skills and achieve significant results for herself and…
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How to Stop Being Ignored
How to Stop Being Ignored Have you ever been in a discussion and had an important and useful idea to share but found the audience shutting you down or ignoring you? Yet, a colleague next to you seemed to be getting more attention for his/her mediocre ideas. Or worse, was repeating the idea you just…
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What is productivity and how can it be increased?
What is productivity and how can it be increased? Every company wants to raise its productivity. We all want to raise our personal productivity. Most businesses understand the importance of productivity and believe they have a plan in place to improve it. We often assume doing more, producing more or completing more tasks increases our…
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Business Case Study Research: The Pernicious Mistake Made
Business Case Study Research: The Pernicious Mistake Made Today’s article draws some of the key lessons out of the LAB study, the market entry strategy study and the corporate strategy and transformation program (the power sector study). All of these rely heavily on case studies and this article examines one of the big mistakes consultants…
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Disastrous First BCG Engagement
A discussion of reasoning used by a partner to analyze a BCG associate’s poor engagement performance. There are almost no excuses for weak performance.
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Succeeding as a Management Consultant
How to learn and demonstrate core management consultant skills: analytic abilities, emotional intelligence and political awareness.
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What is Analytical Problem Solving?
This article addresses some very common misconceptions and myths about analytical problem solving in management consulting.
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Launching A Consulting Firm
Nine key considerations are discussed when ex-partners of McKinsey and BCG leave the firm to start their own consulting firms.
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Implementation, Strategy, and Operations Consulting
This article explains the differences between strategy, operations and implementation consulting, and which firms are good at which type of consulting.