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Aug 26, 2015
Those of you who follow my podcasts would know that I place an incredible amount of emphasis on not just being good at structuring issues and analyses, but also the way you manage people: consulting EQ.

Learn more about the consulting EQ here

Related:
- Detailed videos about consulting EQ (managing, communication, motivating, coaching and mentoring clients and consultants) can be found in our detailed corporate strategy training library
Aug 20, 2015
What happens if you are doing a smaller study, but you identify an opportunity to sell-on a larger, more lucrative and glamorous strategy study?

In this podcast I explain how the opportunity for sell-on strategy work is evolving at LAB, the financial services client whose strategy study we are live-blogging, and how an elite firm would handle the situation.

It has nothing to do with sales.

Related:
- Learn more about strategy from our corporate strategy training
- strategy library
Aug 14, 2015
Readers in other sectors like financial services, energy, retail, automotive etc., make a massive mistake when looking at the technology strategy study training
we have up on the site.

They assume that the study will not train them about corporate strategy since it is about corporate strategy for technology company. That is major flaw.

This podcast elaborates on some of these reasons:

1. Every corporate strategy study must be done for a client in a sector. Therefore it is impossible to find corporate strategy training which is generic - that is, not specific to a sector.
2. The thinking, techniques and training applied to one sector is designed to be applied to any sector.
3. Even if you worked in financial services and we loaded the financial services strategy study shortly, a sector is so large, the study may not even touch the issues you want to learn - therefore focus on the techniques used versus trying to copy content across for your own studies. Do not get into the habit of simply copying analyses.
Aug 8, 2015
Week 1 of the financial services strategy study to enter the US retail banking sector is about done. You can see the detailed live-blogging of the day-by-day analyses, planning and insights here.

This is a real study, done for a real client with a real team of consultants led by Firmsconsulting. Once the study is done, we will post the findings and detailed guide using the map format used for the corporate strategy study training.

This podcast is a wrap-up of the week. We remind readers of the strategy we followed, all the goals we set for the week, our progress against those goals and our key findings thus far. We also discuss a potential scope change and how we will handle that.

It is has been a great week and we wrap up things in New Mexico where the team is conducting more shadow studies / day-in-the-life-of studies of distribution financial intermediary in the border town of Columbus. Related:
- Learn more about financial analysis in our strategy library
Aug 2, 2015
The majority of business gurus, journalists, periodicals, publications, journals, blogs, fashionistas and reality movie stars talk about the arrival of China like it is preordained by the Oracle.

It is not.

America has been here before. In fact America has been here 4 times in its history and each time the American model of government, system of capital allocation and creativity helped the country reinvent itself.

In the next 18 months, Firmsconsulting will be leading 5 sweeping studies, at real clients, to find solutions to issues which impede US productivity growth. The detailed findings and extensive training videos to help you replicate such a study will be released once the studies are done.

We will be bold and analyze some of the most vital and controversial issues including healthcare, immigration and the role of government.

This podcast discusses the theme, training material and topic in more detail. Welcome to the era of America Renewed.
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