How to be a badass consultant and deliver value to your customers
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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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 …
In Consulting you will have one friend that always will be there for you, who will be helping you in ways you can’t imagine. You will spend more time with him than with your family and friends. If you treat him nicely and spend time with him he will help you with your career, private …
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Money doesn’t give you happiness. Yet, it is much better to be unhappy in your new BMW than on your bicycle 😉 In consulting you will have to from time to time create or supervise the creation of financial models. There are the bread and butter of every due diligence, restructuring or even business development …
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 …
Regular consultants want to finish project on time according to agreed deadlines. The badass consultant prefers to have it almost ready in the half of the agreed time. On top of that he delivers and outstanding quality much higher than the rest. Seems like a bit of a contradiction? Let’s see how it can be …
With poetry you can win the heart of a beautiful woman. With a novel you can earn the respect of your colleagues and peers or even earn a buck or two on the side. With a presentation you can bore a crowd of executives to death or win millions of dollars. Everything depends on how …
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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 …
