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October 9, 2016 by Eric Butts 2 Comments

What to do when you hate your project

Consulting Project Exit Plan

I can’t remember a time when I’ve seen so many colleagues leaving the firm. Some people are jumping because of a unique opportunity not available within the firm. Others quit go to a competitor (ouch!). I remember when I made a change to a competitor and there were a whole lot of questions about the why. Part of me just needed a change but I also knew that the firm’s timing wasn’t going to work for me, so I acted accordingly.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Management Consulting Tagged With: career, career advice, career management, consulting

October 2, 2016 by Eric Butts 4 Comments

Life as a Consultant: The 10 Best Pieces of Advice I Ever Received

10 best pieces of consulting advice

One of the many things you learn in the management consulting business is there is no one path to success, so it’s interesting to hear what people remember as the most useful information or advice they’ve picked up so far. What better way to highlight this than to ask consultants from different firms what’s the best advice they’ve gotten. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Management Consulting Tagged With: career advice, career management, client management

September 17, 2016 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

ESPN Violated One of the Major Rules of Consulting


ESPN fantasy delay

In case you don’t like sports or somehow manage to interact with zero people who like sports (or maybe you live in a place where American football isn’t so popular), something pretty interesting happened this past Sunday. The worldwide leader had a “not top 10” moment of its own that I bet they won’t be replaying for the entertainment of its millions of viewers. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Management Consulting Tagged With: client management, espn, management consulting

September 6, 2016 by Chloe Hull 4 Comments

Three Things I’ve Learned in One Year of Management Consulting

 

Management Consulting Skills

Most people will tell you that college is the time in your life when you learn the most, but I have to disagree with those people. While I agree that college is an amazing time for learning (and a heck of a lot of fun, too), both in the educational sense and the social, interpersonal sense, the real learning comes after you walk across that stage.

While you may know how to calculate EPS or how to use Lagrange multipliers in macroeconomics, there’s so much more you need to know to be successful in your career. Being only one year into my management consulting career, I’m well aware that I have many miles to go before I can claim any real knowledge on how to attain career success. That being said, I’ve learned a thing or two in the past 12 months that I’d like to share for those of you who may be on the first few steps of your career paths as well. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Management Consulting Tagged With: career advice, guest post, management consulting

June 7, 2016 by Eric Butts 3 Comments

How to Calculate Payback Period in Excel (with Automated Updates)

How to calculate payback period
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You’d be surprised how simple the calculations are that sophisticated investors rely on. Payback period is one such example. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Excel, Management Consulting Tagged With: abs, countif, excel, excel formulas, index

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