5 reasons why I use firmsconsulting
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“I’ve been a heavy user of firmsconsulting podcasts, articles, video materials for half a year. There are 5 things that keep my interest and are the reason I spend > 50% of my spare time on their website:
1) Partners lead - This is the only consulting training firm run by former partners from McKinsey, BCG and Bain. This has an enormous impact on the quality of material, breadth and depth of the discussion. At no time you are getting an answer from the assistant of the partner. Accessibility and approachability are the innate qualities of service delivery. The average answer time from the partners has been around 2-3 hours for my emails.
2) Global focus – one of the firm partners is former McKinsey global strategy director, another, the managing partner, has worked on projects in >30 offices. You will have access to podcasts and analysis of South Africa, the specifics of consulting offices in Russia, or Germany, or China etc.
3) Innovative approach – In the projects I read about, firmsconsulting came up with original ways to delivery strategy studies. The latest study includes: interviewing through crowdsourcing, liveblogging, preferring second tier business MBAs to first tier etc. As a person working at a firm that emphasizes benchmarking, I have learnt from firmconsulting that merely using best practices is not an option.
4) Values lead – Do you “A consultant with weak values is a sleeping scandal”, and “at the end of the day, if you don’t feel good about yourself, what’s the point of spending your life in consulting” are two quotes (might have different wording) that came from the firm’s partners. The firm is values lead, many times at their own expense. You are not born with strong values, you have to learn them, build your “DOs” and “DON”Ts” and be wary not to walk away from guiding principles. The materials on the website present an excellent opportunity to learn what it means to serve client’s best interest. I remember reading an article about how some of BCG partners misbehaved during recruiting, giving preferential review to a son of a potential client. Firmsconsulting was the first to criticize BCG even though the firm includes a former BCG partner.
5) Unique offer – the services they offer are not offered elsewhere. The key material includes: a) resources on how to get into consulting b) Library tools how to succeed in consulting once you are already a consultant c) Real studies where you can implement the tools that you learnt. This is everything you need to know about consulting.
If you haven't heard about firmsconsulting before, it's because it keeps a very low profile. Their prices are not necessarily the lowest. But isn’t it the first MBA lesson that you learn: you can’t have cheap and best at the same time?”Read full review »
Nauruz via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/12/14
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