StrategyU

AUGUST 22, 2023

” Here is what it said Here are three ways someone might use a tool like Bard to help them work like a strategy consultant: Gathering and analyzing information. Bard can be used to quickly and efficiently gather information from a variety of sources, including news articles, research papers, and social media.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 6, 2024

All these places had leaders who said the right things and talked about building cultures of high performance, high standards, and excellence but the lived reality always fell short. To do great work, you need to put information in context and to put your tasks in context, you need to have an understanding of what your business actually does.

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StrategyU

JANUARY 27, 2021

Every business in the world has been grappling with this and therefore, as an advisor to those businesses, I’ve helped them think through that. My familiarity with boosting financial performance? Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? That will come over.

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This is why consulting can feel more like therapy than business problem-solving. This is the value of a consultant, the ability to continue to search for the problem behind the problem. This usually requires really spending time with the client and people inside the organization in a formal and informal way.

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

People who were excellent at executing struggled to take a step back and be a thought partner with the client, helping design a longer more strategic approach to a problem. #7 7 No one is responsible for the process With almost everyone I’ve worked with, I ask them, “Who is responsible for obsessing over your internal process and performance?”

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Framework #2: The McKinsey 7-S Framework Aligns Your Organization for Success Imagine you’re trying to improve your company’s or team’s performance, but you’re not sure where to start. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? MECE presentations are always more clear and more persuasive.

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StrategyU

MAY 29, 2024

But now, this information is far easier to find online, and the fact that you need to prepare is common knowledge – everyone knows that everyone knows you need to prepare. I suspect the test was more of a general intelligence and reasoning test (which CAN be predictive of job performance). Those case prep books I mentioned?

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StrategyU

APRIL 19, 2022

If you really wanted to jump from Business Analyst to Associate at McKinsey for example, that is definitely a possible path if you are a top performer. In this case, you likely would have to spend an additional six months or year in the BA role and it might come with the title “Senior Business Analyst.”

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StrategyU

JUNE 12, 2021

This is the secret sauce of any high-performing organization but can be hard to recognize if you were not there at the beginning. Edgar Schein, one of the leading thinkers on corporate culture, defined culture as a group of people “who have been together long enough to have shared significant problems.” Thinking Fast and Slow.

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StrategyU

JULY 5, 2020

Despite all these bets, the big three still derive most of their income from traditional long-term consulting engagements with large businesses, which are still performing well. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? This course teaches you how to synthesize information into compelling insights, structure your information in ways that help you solve problems, and develop presentations that resonate at the C-Level.

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