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Firmsconsulting maintains a 80% success rate at placing clients within McKinsey, BCG and Bain. This is the highest in the industry and the rate is higher if we include other firms. We achieve this rate because we only use former partners from McKinsey, BCG et al to develop our clients. This makes us unique. We never use analysts, associates, engagement managers or associate principals. We also carefully select and develop clients on their communication, image, technical and case interview skills. This podcast channel describes our lessons from training our clients.
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Episodes
Mentioned books
Mar 3, 2014 • 12min
184: Mining Sector
This is a related podcast to our mining book.
Feb 25, 2014 • 12min
183: Agribusiness
This detailed podcast, by the engagement partner, discusses a striking reality of most engagements: a problem is never what it appears to be at first. In this Succeeding as a Management Consulting book, the engagement begins as a broad study of the agricultural sector in Canada and the economics of various business models. The study quickly focuses on the physical retail operations as this appears to be the main opportunity to fix this organizations decline.
Feb 19, 2014 • 10min
182: Power Utilities
This detailed podcast, by the engagement senior-partner, discusses the most challenging assignment Firmsconsulting took on to advise a client in preparing one of the Succeeding as a Management Consultant books. The client was a state-run electricity utility in Latin America which was undergoing a significant build program to add capacity for a burgeoning economy while dealing with an aging asset base causing power outages, impacting foreign-direct-investment and decimating national productivity.
Feb 13, 2014 • 12min
181: Public Sector
This detailed podcast, by the engagement partner, discusses the difficulties faced by many European State-Owned-Enterprises during the 2008-2011 recession when many simultaneously saw a drop in revenue and state subsidies. The engagement team in this book led the work to develop a strategy for the courier business of a heavily-indebted European Postal service.
Feb 7, 2014 • 19min
180: Retail Banking
This detailed podcast, by the engagement senior-partner, discusses the challenges and complexities of running an engagement to advise on the economics and strategy of a large micro-finance enterprise.
Feb 1, 2014 • 15min
179: Premium Books
In this podcast we discuss the detailed effort which goes into preparing the multimedia/premium management consulting books. We discuss the engagements we run and the client issues faced, the development of hypotheses, data collection, analyses, model building, client management and preparation of the final recommendation. We thereafter discuss how all of this, including the extensive video footage, is brought together to produce each of the 4 multimedia books.
Jan 26, 2014 • 21min
178: Editor's Notes
In this podcast we isolate the 5 most important and counter-intuitive lessons from the popular book.
Jan 20, 2014 • 13min
177: Partnership
In this podcast we introduce one of our most popular books, Partnership. This is a memoir written by partner who served in that position at 2 of the big-3 firms.
Jan 14, 2014 • 31min
176: Introduction to Our Culture and Values
This detailed podcast introduces Firmsconsulting and our distinctive heritage which is best exemplified by these three quotes: "Business properly conducted could be as high a calling as anything." Marvin Bower "If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles." Marvin Bower "Management consulting is no individual's right as a career. It is the single greatest privilege of a business professional to earn the trust required to advise a client on his/her most pressing issues." Michael Boricki
Jan 8, 2014 • 46min
175: Peter on McKinsey Middle East With a PhD
Peter is a PhD candidate from the USA who joined McKinsey Middle East a year ago. The striking thing about Peter is his level of confidence and the fact that he does not sound like a PhD. He is a candidate who initially pursued the USA and thereafter opened interviews at another highly competitive office where he was successful. Peters interview is more for the journey he goes through to build his confidence and learn about his potential. I have personally admired this candidate because he seems to closely follow the strong values-based path Firmsconsulting expects of our alums.
