
I joined McKinsey at 34 and have worked there for 9 years. My learning journey was challenging, and I made millions of mistakes. Now, I am on a mission to help a new generation of consultants have a better experience.
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How AI helped to solve a really tough problem.
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You know, there’s a lot of hype around AI. And many people build a lot of stuff. But there’s also some skepticism around real impact. Some peop...
‘You must improve your problem-solving.’
This is what my evaluator told me after my performance review. These words hit me like a ton of bricks.
‘You are not smart enough,‘ that's how I understood him.
I knew it was extremely dangerous f...
I didn’t expect my MBA to be so useless at McKinsey.
A lateral-hire consultant complained to me.
He said that all the knowledge and frameworks he learned, he couldn’t apply to his job: swot analysis, PESTLE analysis, Porter's five forces,...
UP-or-OUT in MBB firms is a great rule, but not for lateral hires.
I truly believe it's a great thing. It creates a strategic advantage for MBB firms.
It keeps the new blood flowing in. It cleans up all the levels in the pyramid. It make...
You know, I struggled with problem-solving as a McKinsey consultant.
Then, I found a cheat sheet that helped me a lot.
Here's how it started...
On my first project, I was given a process workstream. I couldn’t demonstrate my problem-solv...
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