How to be a badass consultant and deliver value to your customers
A few years ago I have seen a documentary movie showing a refugee camp. To my surprise they have managed to create a mini economy inside the camp. There was a school, hairdressers, church, modest fast foods and small workshops. In other words even if the worst happens a new balance is created in which …
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Management consultants have learned to sell all sorts 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 …
Consumer goods are tough. You have so many customers that you cannot threaten them or negotiate with them. You have to think about segments, trends and act indirectly with a lot of marketing and indirect sales. That’s why consulting projects devoted to consumer goods are so much fun. You can do there plenty of interesting …
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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 …
How to create a strategy? Management Consultants are extremely good in creating plethora of strategies, tactics, and frameworks. They all sound interesting but at the very end you don’t know how to use them and how do they interact with each other. Below a nice picture showing just a handful of them. If you want …
The most important piece of advice to all management consultants was given by Dr. House in the famous TV show: Yes. Everybody lies. They do it to save their position or to seem in control. Quite often they simply don’t know. If you want to be a true badass consultant you cannot let lies slow …
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Management Consultants are not born smart and almighty. They dress to look that way but most of their “magic powers” come from the 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 …
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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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Consulting is a great place where you can learn how to understand and improve businesses. This is a pretty useful skill if you want to become later on a manager, a founder, or a CEO. If you get to the level of a badass consultant all of a sudden everything will seem obvious. Nevertheless, it …
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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 …
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