Management consultants have learnt to sell all sort of weird projects to their clients. Some of them were born out of the need of the customer. Others were developed internally by the consulting firms. Consulting projects differ drastically and I will try to shed some light on the main types of projects you can come …
How to be a badass manager or a CEO?
Life is funny. We tend to concentrate on the things we have to learn to move up the social ladder but we tend to forget that is also a story of unlearning things we have done so far, changing habits that we have so meticulous built into the fabric of our life. As you go …
Top Management Consulting Techniques, Tools and Frameworks
Management Consultants are not born smart and almighty. They dress to look that way but most of their “magic powers” come from application of simple techniques, frameworks and tools. Do you want to master those “magic” tricks and be as smart as them? If the answer is YES, then let’s spend the next 20 minutes …
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Essential Lean Manufacturing Techniques every Badass Consultant should know
Lean Manufacturing techniques are extremely powerful not only for production but for all areas in the firm. It is also not only limited to production based businesses. Over the last 10 years I have seen the very same principles being applied to startups (lean startups, lean analytics, scaling lean), services (optimizing costs and service level), …
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How to start a consulting business
If you have managed to become a badass consultant you may find yourself a little bit trapped in your current place of work that does not support efficient people. You may start wondering about starting your own consulting business. For those of you who are considering this option I have prepared a short yet useful …
What I hate in consulting?
Consulting, like every industry, has its shitty moments, things that piss you off and make you hate the job. I have my list of things that I hate in consulting. Below just a few of them. Enjoy the list of an always complaining badass consultant 🙂 : Suits. The Suit are a modern tool of …
Top 11 books for a badass consultant
Once you finish university you hope to be done with learning once and for all. As you may have guessed that’s unfortunately not gone happen, especially if you change industry or your area of work every 1-2 years. A badass consultant is a constant learner. This means that you have to read a ton of …
11 Tips that will help you survive management consulting projects
Consulting is very demanding in the first 2 years. You usually work 10-15 hours a day 6-7 days a week. I have gone through my share of projects and become pretty efficient. Below some of my favorite life and work hacks that I have used to survive and prosper 😉 : Befriend the customer / …
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How to be a badass consultant?
Consulting is a tough profession. You quite often find yourself surrounded by not that friendly faces that treat you as a parasite. You will most likely have to work long hours (12-15 a day), travel a lot, argue with bunch of strangers that have been in the same business for 20-30 years and spend majority …
