Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

The clients won’t be household names. Compensation for your volunteer consulting work is at an exciting zero. Worst of all, it will be just another project that competes with school work, networking, and sleep for a piece of your time. Yet for graduate students seriously considering a consulting career without prior professional consulting experience, I would strongly recommend it.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

When you’re doing scary creative work, or work that requires emotional labor, it’s natural to want to walk away a bit. To distract yourself. To go shave a yak , mindlessly eat or bother someone in the next cube. This is the main activity online, actually. People avoiding the real work. One useful practice is to have forced choices that break up the work but that are also productive.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

As an undergrad embarking on my first management consulting internship, I wasn’t really sure what to expect. On campus, I was involved in a consulting organisation where we did project work for clients, but I questioned if the skills I gained would be transferrable and applicable. It didn’t feel “real” enough. Upperclassmen who had done similar internships told me to relax and enjoy the remainder of my semester.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

One of the most vivid memories I have from my early consulting career was the time a Chief Operations Officer (COO) nearly torpedoed my first engagement. It was a corporate reorganisation that involved taking 8 major divisions and around a dozen support units and rebuilding them into a simpler organisational structure. By the time the executive considered cancelling the project, our team had completed almost a hundred 90-minute interviews, two 100-slide PowerPoint decks, five board meetings, and

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