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Long-form essays, field notes, and frameworks from the FIRMSconsulting team — published weekly.
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Psychological barriers
Let’s talk about one of psychological barriers that keep many of FC members back. I will call it “potential debt.”
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Career strategies to avoid
Today I would like to offer you some thoughts as you think through your career strategy. Specifically here are 6 career strategies you should avoid.
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Lifelong learning mindset
Lifelong learning mindset is a big commitment. There is no formal prize like a degree when you are reading about strategy problem-solving in your free time or learning to build data bases for big data on a weekend.
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How to get permission to be heard
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? Often you just do not have the audience’s permission to be heard.
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How I developed skills that matter to clients?
Big 4 country leader talks about how over the last 4-5 years he developed skills that helped him raise the bar 10 times higher and significantly accelerate his career progression.
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Can a functional partner lead the strategy workshop over a sector partner?
In this article we will address the question whether a functional partner should lead a strategy workshop over a sector partner.
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How to Set Transformative Career Goals/ Life Goals
Today we discuss setting life goals/career goals, and how to make sure you go for a home run.
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Leadership Challenge on a Consulting Engagement
How to approach leadership challenge on any consulting engagement, balancing pure traditional consulting intervention where you have to fix the hard problem, with the human side.
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Business Intuition – Step-by-Step Guide to Improve It
What is business intuition? What is good, or bad, business intuition? Is business intuition the same for marketing, digital, strategy, and even operations? Is it your understanding of business?
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Heading a Struggling Boutique Consulting Firm
Heading A Struggling Boutique Consulting Firm A corporate strategy partner’s lessons in being head-hunted from an elite firm to head a boutique consulting firm This series of articles are designed to fix a common problem when applying the lessons of partners from the elite firms. Telling you how I did things within the elite firm is…
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Consulting Practice I Inherited
Consulting Practice I Inherited “Trust but verify.” Pres. Ronald Reagan This series examines the ways in which best practices from BCG and McKinsey can be applied in other work environments, such as in a smaller boutique consulting firm or even a corporate role. This article is a part 2 in this series, part 1 is…
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Corporate Strategy Engagement
Corporate Strategy Engagement Helping a major power utility develop a new corporate strategy to meet surging demand and manage rising blackouts. In this series of articles we discuss the approach used to help a major power utility develop a corporate level strategy to meet increasing power demand and manage rising blackouts threatening to cripple economic…