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Consultant Ninja: Signs of Crunch Time: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Countdown metric unit shrinking. ["96 Analysis. (40). Management Consulting. Client timeline shortening. Lets shoot for a Wednesday draft"] Partner involvement growing. ["I I havent seen a deck in a while. Can you please send the most recent version over?"] 96 hours until were done."] Cursing off the chart. ["f**k."

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

Time management is certainly a factor. Some candidates finish early, while others don’t complete it in time. However, McKinsey is more focused on your critical thinking skills and what you display during that time rather than how quickly you can complete each task. The first is a constrained optimization mini-game.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Monitor it.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. We received a request from Disney headquarters in Burbank, California, for a financial analysis.