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The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving

CEOs and business leaders, management consulting senior partners, ground-breaking professors, thought-provoking writers and journalists, record-setting athletes and coaches, and award-winning actors and celebrities discuss the key issues facing the business world and broader society. Get free access to our newsletter, Monday Morning at 8 am, along with sample episodes from our training programs on www.strategytraining.com. Go to https://www.firmsconsulting.com/promo.

440: What is the big picture thinking? (Strategy Skills classics)

11 mins; April 15, 2024

439: How to think about financial strategy | management consulting (Strategy Skills classics)

9 mins; April 10, 2024

438: Scenario planning's common problems (Strategy Skills classics)

9 mins; April 08, 2024

437: Google's Laura Mae Martin on How to Be Productive

54 mins; April 03, 2024

436: Selling Services to PE Firms with Aimably's Founder and Stanford Grad, Claire Milligan

51 mins; April 01, 2024

435: Stanford University's Jeremy Utley. AI's brainstorming and problem-solving potential

53 mins; March 27, 2024

434: Conditions for great PowerPoint slides (Strategy Skills classics)

16 mins; March 25, 2024

433: Digital strategy expert, Venkat Venkatraman. How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future

57 mins; March 20, 2024

432: One of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation, Vijay "VG" Govindarajan. How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future

55 mins; March 18, 2024

431: Design the value chain you need | value chain analysis (Strategy Skills classics)

11 mins; March 13, 2024

430: Chief evangelist of Canva and host of the Remarkable People podcast, Guy Kawasaki, on Lessons from the world's most remarkable people

47 mins; March 11, 2024

429: Benchmarking analysis (Strategy Skills classics)

16 mins; March 06, 2024

428: Vice President of SCADpro, Paul Stonick. The Business Value of Design and The Cost of Not Innovating

51 mins; March 04, 2024

427: Ex McKinsey and LBS lecturer, Dr. Rebecca Homkes, on high growth strategy

53 mins; February 28, 2024

426: Professor of Neuroscience, Dr. Charan Ranganath, on Memory, Neuroscience, and Discovery

53 mins; February 26, 2024

425: Former President of Nike's Consumer-Direct Division and Former Executive Vice President and COO of PepsiCo Discuss Strategies from Women Who've Made It—Christiana Smith Shi and Grace Puma

51 mins; February 21, 2024

424: CEO of Churchome, David Kroll, on Using Modern Technology to Scale Your Nonprofit Organization and Grow Your Community

42 mins; February 19, 2024

423: Value chain mapping (Strategy Skills classics)

8 mins; February 14, 2024

422: Harvard grad and Cerebral data science team leader, Akshay Swaminathan, on winning with Data Science

44 mins; February 12, 2024

421: A Visionary Business Leader and Best Selling Author, Mark A. Mears. What's LOVE Got to Do With Leadership?

47 mins; February 07, 2024

420: What a strategy workshop will not give you at the end (Strategy Skills classics)

8 mins; February 05, 2024

419: The one thing every consulting case study must produce (Strategy Skills classics)

8 mins; January 31, 2024

418: The most important output in a consulting study | management consulting project | benefits case (Strategy Skills classics)

10 mins; January 29, 2024

417: A professor of global politics at University College London, Brian Klaas. FLUKE: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

47 mins; January 24, 2024

416: Consulting workshop best practices (Strategy Skills classics)

9 mins; January 22, 2024

415: If VCs & Gov. join forces we can solve society's biggest problems. With venture capitalist and lecturer at Stanford University, Arun Gupta

56 mins; January 17, 2024

414: How to resign from your job the right way (Strategy Skills classics)

18 mins; January 15, 2024

413: Best-selling author and Harvard Business School professor, Ranjay Gulati — Courageous Leadership

53 mins; January 10, 2024

412: Overall goal of every consulting interaction (Strategy Skills classics)

8 mins; January 08, 2024

411: How important is corporate strategy? (Strategy Skills Classics)

9 mins; January 03, 2024

410: How to run a scenario planning session (Strategy Skills Classics)

14 mins; January 01, 2024

409: Being competitive the right way (Strategy Skills classics)

14 mins; December 27, 2023

408: Professional values on studies (Strategy Skills classics)

16 mins; December 25, 2023

407: If objective function is known, It's not a corporate strategy (Strategy Skills classics)

13 mins; December 20, 2023

406: How to communicate recommendations (Strategy Skills classics)

14 mins; December 18, 2023

405: New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Rich Horwath — How to Develop Your Strategic Fitness

52 mins; December 13, 2023

404: B2B Sales Expert, Rana Salman, on Internal and External Strategies for Optimizing Your Sales Conversations and Communicating Solutions

50 mins; December 11, 2023

403: Grooming corporate leaders (Strategy Skills classics)

18 mins; December 06, 2023

402: Consulting: Confidence & getting results (Strategy Skills classics)

17 mins; December 04, 2023

401: How to conduct a value chain analysis (Strategy Skills classics)

8 mins; November 29, 2023

400: What the NYPD teaches us about complex corporate strategy (Strategy Skills classics)

32 mins; November 27, 2023

399: 5 tips to fight fatigue (Strategy Skills classics)

16 mins; November 22, 2023

398: Northwestern University Professor, Lan Nguyen Chaplin — How to Disrupt a System That Was Built to Hold You Back

47 mins; November 20, 2023

398: CEO and Founder of Vanderbloemen Search Group, William Vanderbloemen — A guide to hiring the best talent

41 mins; November 15, 2023

397: Period case studies (Strategy Skills classics)

12 mins; November 13, 2023

396: CEO OF KUSI Global, Inc. and Harvard University Fellow, Talia Fox — The Power of Conscious Connection

52 mins; November 08, 2023

395: The organizational design stream (Strategy Skills classics)

15 mins; November 06, 2023

394: Avoiding the strategy echo chamber (Strategy Skills classics)

14 mins; November 01, 2023

393: What makes it a transformation study? (Strategy Skills classics)

22 mins; October 30, 2023

392: USA Champion Gymnast turned entrepreneur & VC, Lisa Carmen Wang — Overcoming Good Girl Brainwashing

49 mins; October 25, 2023

391: How to complete logical case studies? (Strategy Skills classics)

10 mins; October 23, 2023

390: $42 million in fees for one engagement (Problem)

41 mins; October 18, 2023

389: $42 million in fees for one engagement (Assets)

53 mins; October 16, 2023

388: President of WillowTree, Tobias Dengel — How AI Will Return Communication To Its Most Natural Form: Voice

50 mins; October 11, 2023

387: $42 million in fees for one engagement (Person)

51 mins; October 09, 2023

386: Three career path options for consulting partners (Strategy Skills classics)

13 mins; October 04, 2023

385: When should you not brand yourself ex McKinsey (Strategy Skills classics)

11 mins; October 02, 2023

384: Great Management Consultants are Artists (Strategy Skills classics)

24 mins; September 27, 2023

383: How to handle a "horrible" client (Strategy Skills classics)

14 mins; September 25, 2023

382: How and when a consultant must disagree (Strategy Skills classics)

13 mins; September 20, 2023

381: How to get to $500k per month in 4 years (with Samuel Moses)

56 mins; September 18, 2023

380: Private Equity Firm CEO on Power, Success and Getting Results (with Rick Walker)

62 hours 38 mins; September 13, 2023

379: Ex Microsoft AI Strategy Expert on Strategy and Vision in the era of Artificial Intelligence (with Brian Evergreen)

49 mins; September 11, 2023

378: Director of the Advanced Management and Leadership Programme at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, Dr. Andrew White — The New Archetype of Business Leadership

36 mins; September 06, 2023

377: The Fourth-Generation CEO of Premier Dental, Julie Charlestein — How to Create a Healthy Succession Plan

38 mins; September 04, 2023

376: The Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, Tiffani Bova — The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth

45 mins; August 30, 2023

375: The first Chief Digital Officer in the history of the Fortune 500, Atif Rafiq — Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown and Move from Strategy to Action

54 mins; August 28, 2023

374: Wharton School Professor of Management and Vice Dean for the MBA for Executives Program, Mauro F. Guillén — Embracing a post-generational mindset to live a long and fulfilling life

46 mins; August 23, 2023

373: CEO and co-founder of Reboot.io, Jerry Colonna — Leadership and the Longing to Belong

44 mins; August 21, 2023

372: Former President of Disney Stores Worldwide Jim Fielding — Leading Consumer Products Groups at the World's Largest Media Companies, Leading Disney Stores Worldwide, Time Management, Biggest Lessons Learned While at Disney

60 hours 47 mins; August 16, 2023

371: McKinsey's Emily Field — Power to the Middle, Reimagining the Roles of a Mid Level Manager, The Key to the Future of Work

58 mins; August 14, 2023

370: Harvard MBA Manisha Thakor — Financial Services Thirty Years Career, Hungry Ghost Mindset, How to Stop Being a Workaholic, Dealing with Work Addiction

56 mins; August 09, 2023

369: World leading expert on perfectionism, Thomas Curran — The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough

53 mins; August 07, 2023

368: Should I email the full deck to participants before the strategy workshop? (Strategy Skills classics)

14 mins; August 02, 2023

367: Are the analyses always the same for a strategy workshop? (Strategy Skills classics)

19 mins; July 31, 2023

366: What if the client demands more analyses? (Strategy Skills classics)

23 mins; July 26, 2023

365: What happens if the client asks for proof of the strategy? (Strategy Skills classics)

20 mins; July 24, 2023

364: How confident must I be to lead the workshop? (Strategy Skills classics)

22 mins; July 19, 2023

363: What is corporate strategy? (Strategy Skills classics)

12 mins; July 17, 2023

362: What is a conceptual thinker? (Strategy Skills classics)

10 mins; July 12, 2023

361: Former McKinsey Consultant Darryl Stickel — Building Trust With Consulting Clients, Testing Trust Deficit Within Your Team, Sharpening Trust as a Skill, The Most Effective Levers You Can Pull To Build Trust

52 mins; July 10, 2023

361: Why you should read Bill Matassoni's memoir (Strategy Skills classics)

18 mins; July 05, 2023

360: Columbia University's Steven Cohen, Environmentally sustainable growth

49 mins; July 03, 2023

359: Ex senior McKinsey Partner and worldwide strategy practice co-leader, Kevin P. Coyne (Strategy Skills classics)

39 mins; June 28, 2023

358: Workshop structure, process and outcome (Strategy Skills classics)

17 mins; June 26, 2023

357: Philosopher Ivo Brughmans — Paradoxical Leadership, Management Consulting, Polarities, Dilemmas, The Metaphor of the Bus, Being Driven from Inside

59 mins; June 21, 2023

356: Former Bain & Company Director Michael Farmer — Differences Between McKinsey, Bain and BCG, Strategy Consulting, Helping Ad Agencies and Their Clients Navigate the Changes in the Media Landscape, Transformation of a Creative Ad Agency (Huge)

63 hours 37 mins; June 19, 2023

355: McKinsey senior partner, Kate Smaje. Winning in the age of digital and AI

47 mins; June 14, 2023

354: Former Microsoft executive & CEO of Snowflake, Bob Muglia. The future of AI

47 mins; June 12, 2023

353: Management skills analysis challenges (Strategy Skills classics)

14 mins; June 07, 2023

352: Corporate strategy analysis process (Strategy Skills classics)

15 mins; June 05, 2023

351: Advanced predictive problem solving (Turquoise Eyes: A Novel about Problem Solving & Critical Thinking)

25 mins; May 31, 2023

350: Finalize the overall storyboard for the client (Strategy Skills classics)

21 mins; May 29, 2023

349: Business unit strategy: Core & critical (Strategy Skills classics)

7 mins; May 24, 2023

348: Dr. Luana Marques (Harvard professor), How to transform anxiety into power

57 mins; May 22, 2023

347: How to start shifting to the career you've always wanted - Author program Q&A 7 (Strategy Skills classics)

6 mins; May 17, 2023

346: How to write a book even if you're "too junior" - Author Program Q&A 6 (Strategy Skills classics)

10 mins; May 15, 2023

345: Martin Reeves (Boston Consulting Group), The Imagination Machine

61 hours 20 mins; May 10, 2023

344: Should I wait to publish a solo book? Author Program Q&A 5 (Strategy Skills classics)

11 mins; May 08, 2023

343: Is it expensive? Author Program Q&A 4 (Strategy Skills classics)

11 mins; May 03, 2023

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