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Financial value created for employer
Significant and enduring career ROI occurs when significant measurable financial value is created for employers / clients.
Financial reward recognition
Your salary and bonus is typically a function of the value you create for your employer, provided you position yourself to humbly receive the recognition you deserve.
Promotion
Promotions signal your movement into leadership roles. Without promotions you will reach a ceiling in the salary band for your level.
Followship
This is the principle where employees want to work for you, even if they organizationally report to you. With strong followship you will have the most motivated teams.
ROI calculated through the change in salary and bonuses for subscribers over a 5-year period, divided by FIRMSconsulting subscription costs. All salaries are self-reported. Based on members who cited their FIRMSconsulting subscriptions as the primary reason for their career success. Excludes non-financial and non-quantifiable benefits like promotions without salary increases, new titles, better personal relationships, etc., which would raise the ROI.
Why the best performers generate 20× to 50×
When mapping the performance of members who self-report their change in income, we find the best performers generate a 20X — 50X return because they focus on a few critical levers.
It’s not about them.
They push aside their needs and ask themselves what their employer needs to excel. They look at their team, product, division and office, and help them succeed. They understand that by lifting everyone they will naturally benefit as well.
They do the work.
They listen to the advice, follow the programs diligently and implement the advice in their careers. They adjust the advice to their circumstances. They often report positive results within a few months but are usually chasing big goals that deliver significant career ROI over 12 to 24 months.
They execute.
In consulting, promotions are given for analysis, insights and reports that drive change at a client. In business, success comes from implementing what you promised. Implementation matters. If you cannot deliver what you promised, you will not create value and there are no additional financial profits to flow to you.
They apply the skills to their jobs.
Members who generate 5X or 10X ROI tend to spend most of the time learning the skills in the comfort of their homes and doing homework on sample exercises. 20X — 50X members directly apply the lessons to an important assignment they are leading at the office. They minimize practice time at home to free up energy for the actual project.
Is this your Monday morning?
You arrive at the office and open an article from a leading business journal or consulting firm. The article lists the 5 reasons why the leading companies in your field excel.
You note these points down and realize you cannot go forward. You know the what, but what about the how?
You have three options.
Take back your career
You can do the work, build a remarkable team and deliver meaningful results.
Hi there! If you’re reading this, you’re probably like me — spending most of your days in your office trying to deliver on a critical business goal in strategy, operations, implementation, pricing and so on.
You are also leading a team under stressful conditions, and possibly with some health issues.
You probably have 15 tabs open. One for Google, one for the McKinsey Quarterly, one for BCG Perspectives and on, and on. Your team has a goal to deliver but you literally don’t know how to guide them in solving the problem.
So you read many sites hoping to piece together that one framework or tool you need. Google is your best friend. Yet, Google cannot help you implement anything. You waste a lot of time. You have to repeat this needle-in-a-haystack approach every time for every problem.
You may even earn an MBA hoping to learn the skills to solve business problems and lead effectively. Now you are 2 years behind in your career and $200K behind in your savings. You soon realize the MBA is not enough.
Maybe you join a consulting firm. Maybe you join a bank. Once you leave you realize you are still in the same place. You know the language of business. You picked up some clever tools. But you don’t know how to lead your team to deliver on complex business goals.
This is why we created FIRMSconsulting. We work with the most eminent ex-McKinsey, BCG et al. partners to help leaders create bankable benefits. We will teach you how to solve complex business problems from first principles, without having to join a consulting firm or study for an MBA. We will teach you to be a leader.
We stream our 6,500+ videos through Apps and websites so you can take your learning with you. We publish books and journals. Use all our curated and edited slides and proposals. Forget about having to waste time figuring out what to do on Monday morning 8 am.
— Kris Safarova, Presiding Partner
“Our members see leadership as an identity. It is an honor for them to accept the responsibility of leadership. They don’t seek the title but accept the role when they are the only ones who can make the necessary tough choices. Leadership is their moral responsibility. What greater calling can they answer than the privilege of helping their colleagues and clients have better, more fulfilling lives?”
— Kris Safarova, Presiding Partner
3 approaches — which is right for you?
There are 3 different ways to become a leader. All of them work but they teach you different things and give you different skills.
Conversational knowledge
If you like reading business journals and books to improve your conversational business knowledge, this is probably what you are doing. You are not much interested in learning how to do the analysis, implement the recommendations or lead your team.
You are fine knowing just a little about the ideas but will leave it to your team and/or consultants to do the heavy lifting.
Using the insight
Some of us are pressed for time and we want the answers immediately. You just want to know the approach used and a simple explanation for each part of the framework.
You are fine being dependent on someone else to give you insights to use.
Produce the insight AND generate banked results
This is what we teach. You want to be able to solve problems with just a clean sheet of paper and a pencil and lead your team to generate measurable results. You want to be an independent thinker who is not solely dependent on advisors.
You understand the insight will not get you promoted. You need to generate measurable financial results that exceed competitors. You do not want to rely on someone else to produce insights and create the results — you will lead your team.
Our focus — and what you can expect
We want to offer you the maximum ROI for your career. We have focused on the 3rd group above. People who want to learn how to produce deep and enduring insights, yet know they are measured on the benefits to their employers / clients.
That means our content tends to be longer since we explain both how and why we did things. We not only provide answers but teach you how to arrive at answers by yourself and implement the findings while leading teams.
You are a leader. You are not an analyst. You are mature enough to understand that at a certain point in your career it is no longer a badge of honor to produce dazzling insights on PowerPoint. You must be the person taking those insights and embedding them in the organization.
You are not looking for shortcuts. If it takes 10 to 15 years to become a senior partner / senior executive, you know anyone offering to teach you all those skills in just one course cannot be sincere. We do not make that promise. It will take time, but you will start seeing results quickly if you follow the plan.