Category: management consulting

Virtual Networking

Networking has always been central to success in the management consulting recruiting process (and business in general). Building relationships is how businesses and careers grow. However, in the era of Covid-19, with so many people working remotely, in-person networking has become something of an impossibility. Fortunately, the same technologies that have facilitated the rise of…

Career Change at 40: Breaking Into Consulting as an Experienced Hire

Every non-pandemic year, management consulting firms across the world send current and former employees to recruit a fresh cohort of talent from university ranks. This might give you the impression that management consulting is a young person’s game. If you don’t start your career with the right internship, you won’t have a shot at breaking…

KPMG Lakehouse: KPMG Professional Development Center

KPMG Lakehouse is changing the training game. Prior to the launch of the KPMG Lakehouse training center in Orlando, Florida, you’d never hear a KPMG consultant saying, “I really love corporate training. It’s so much fun. It’s especially enjoyable when combined with stays at ‘Hotel Ho Hum’ after endless traveling to and from those training…

What Is Critical Thinking Skills?

Critical thinking is critical – pun intended – in today’s problem-riddled workplace. Every single day we are faced with issues that require us to dig deeper than the surface level in order to find the solutions we need. That requires critical thinking. Critical thinking skills are what help you make fact-based decisions without being swayed…

Tipping Point Leadership

Leading in today’s business environment is not easy, and creating change is even harder. William Bratton understood that. In 1994, Bratton pioneered what has now come to be known as tipping point leadership, an unconventional method for approaching large-scale organizational change. Bratton is a former New York City Police Commissioner who took the reins of…

What Is Lean Six Sigma?

“What is lean six sigma?” is a question Western businesspeople have been asking themselves for decades since the meteoric rise of Japanese industry in the 1980s. Since the term’s introduction, many companies have successfully implemented lean six sigma into their production processes and workflow. It has become, to some, an article of faith. For others,…

How to Create a Business Plan

Many people never learn how to create a business plan even though they own and operate a business. Maybe they think formal business plans are reserved for multinational corporations, to be executed by highly educated executives. Maybe they assume a business plan is too complicated for a small business owner to learn, or more detailed…

3 Reasons To Work For Deloitte

Deloitte is one of the most recognizable consulting firms in the world. There are some real benefits to working there. Some you could probably guess, some may be a surprise. None-the-less, take a look at 3 reasons to work at Deloitte Consulting. 3 Reasons To Work For Deloitte: YouTube Transcription Deloitte S&O, otherwise known as…

How to Develop a Strategic Plan

Many entrepreneurs start their businesses with a relatively simple idea for a product or service. They also have a relatively simple goal of producing and selling that product or service as profitably as possible. Yet, this isn’t unique just to new entrepreneurs. Senior managers in charge of large divisions within publicly traded companies, however, also…

Warren Buffett: A Master of Business Relationships

Warren Buffett is a name you’re guaranteed to have heard of if you’ve paid any attention to the international business landscape in the last fifty years. There is practically a whole sub-industry of literature out there promising to unveil the secrets of Buffett’s success. Buffett – also known as the “the Oracle of Omaha” -…