Untouched
Despite not really knowing the lyrics, I’ve had a song playing on and off in the back my head since I got back from training. It was played in the background of the closing slideshow, and upon getting back, I must’ve spent at least one (frustrating) hour searching on Google combinations of words “I just [...]
Off to training
I’m sitting in an airport waiting for my flight to a training program that my firm holds for third year associates. That’s good — because two years of not knowing what I’m doing really needs to end . Looking forward to returning to the blogosphere when I return (next week)! Albeit, I’ll be out of [...]
Training
I have returned from training (or I did two days ago and have been too busy to blog about it). I’m still astonished at the amount of resources that consulting firms are willing to invest in training their employees, especially since many consultants eventually leave to do other things (including *gasp* working for other consulting [...]
Off to Training
I will be off to training from the 5th of August to the 15th and will not be posting until I get back. I leave a callow consultant and will come back . . . most likely still callow, but also sleep deprived and having met all sorts of interesting people across the firm. Until [...]
To Love or Not to Love "the Beach"
When I first started work, several senior consultants noted that starting consultants would oftentimes find themselves “on the beach” as they waited for staffing rounds to fill them into cases. They noted that most starting consultants would grow restless and worried over their state of limbo. I thought I would be above that: “You mean, [...]
Communicating Answers
How should a company choose what to invest in? The most logical means of evaluating an investment would be to perform a basic cost-benefit analysis on each investment relative to the others. This is no small task, as with each investment, there is always an element of risk that is difficult to gauge (i.e. maybe sales will jump [...]
The Excel Tutorial
Consulting firms pride themselves on their people “assets.” Their recruiting brochures (and I would imagine, their marketing literature as well) are full of words describing their employees more like demi-gods than real people: “the best and the brightest”, “those with the intelligence and the passion to make a difference”, “our people are our brand”, etc. Knowing that [...]
