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 …
How to conduct market research during consulting projects
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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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 prepare for the case interview and get into consulting
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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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 …
How to crush it with Excel – practical guide for Management Consultants
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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How to create a finacial model
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 …
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 …
How to manage consulting projects
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 …
