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The Strategy Skills Podcast: Management Consulting | Strategy, Operations & Implementation | Critical Thinking

Kris Safarova for Firmsconsulting.com

The Strategy Skills Podcast is the channel where strategy partners teach you the tools and techniques to solve mankind’s greatest problems. Learn all the skills of McKinsey and BCG consultan...

Episodes

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692: Wharton School Professor Matthew Bidwell on How to Build a Successful Career from the Inside

Matthew Bidwell, professor at the Wharton School and author of The Insider Advantage, examines why familiarity with an organization remains...

54:42Oct 14, 2026

688: Michael on the U.S. Green Card Ban

There's some big news that came out today, that has not actually gotten much publicity, but it should, especially for our client base, and f...

05:31Oct 12, 2026

687: US Open Medalist on Principles to Succeed at Any Table in Business, Sports, and Life (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic featuring an interview with the author of Ping Pong Leadership: 18 Principles to S...

46:34Sep 30, 2026

686: How VC Shapes Startups with Benjamin Shestakofsky (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic featuring an interview with the author of Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital...

50:48Sep 28, 2026

685: Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic featuring an interview with the authors of Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Buil...

52:59Sep 16, 2026

684: Founder and CEO of Triggers, Leslie Zane. The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic interview with an award-winning marketer, TEDx speaker and authority in harnessing...

48:23Sep 9, 2026

683: Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School, Jesper Rangvid, on the End of 40 Years of Falling Interest Rates

Jesper Rangvid, professor of finance at Copenhagen Business School, explores what leaders should understand about interest rates, inflation,...

50:35Sep 7, 2026

682: Founder and CEO of High Alpha Innovation, Elliott Parker. The Illusion of Innovation (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic interview with the author of The Illusion of Innovation: Escape "Efficiency" and U...

48:59Sep 2, 2026

681: Harvard's Cornelia Choe on How Great Leaders See Differently

Cornelia Choe explains why being right is no longer enough for leaders operating in environments of constant change. She calls the problem "...

40:51Aug 31, 2026

680: Psychotherapist, Glenn Hutchinson, on Why Good People Cheat: What Infidelity Reveals About Decision-Making

Glenn Hutchinson , a psychotherapist who developed the personality science behind the assessments used by Match.com, explores one of the mos...

45:05Aug 26, 2026

679: Director of the K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center at MIT, Amos Winter on Global by Design

Amos Winter , professor of mechanical engineering and director of the K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center at MIT, explains h...

58:08Aug 24, 2026

678: Social Organizational Psychologist, Jeremy Pollack, on Why Smart Leaders Still Fail at Conflict Resolution

Jeremy Pollack, PhD, argues that most workplace conflicts cannot be resolved by negotiating solutions alone. Before people can solve a probl...

43:00Aug 19, 2026

677: Global by Design: Vijay Govindarajan on Building Better Innovations

Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and co-author of Global by Design, explains how inno...

44:04Aug 17, 2026

676: The key strategy question most boards do not answer, and cannot answer

Porsche just announced workforce cuts because of dropping sales in China. Every board reads that as an operations problem. It isn't. It's a...

18:40Aug 12, 2026

675: Porsche to Cut 5000 More Jobs After Sales Collapse. Here's What Their Strategy Is Missing

Michael has said, all other things being equal, there's only a 10% chance of this working. Porsche just announced 5,000 more job cuts ,on to...

26:10Aug 10, 2026

674: Social Psychologist, Owen Fitzpatrick on Why the Most Dangerous Propaganda Is the Story You Tell Yourself

Owen Fitzpatrick has spent years studying propaganda, belief systems, and decision-making in places such as North Korea, Rwanda, Afghanistan...

52:51Aug 5, 2026

673: Why Immigrants Outperform. 3 Traits You Can Build Without Immigrating

Learn the immigrant success mindset and how to build resilience. See how specific challenges foster growth for anyone. Many assume the immig...

27:58Aug 3, 2026

672: How Relying on ChatGPT or Claude Destroys Your Career

I had a coaching call this month where my client could not put his thinking together. He said to me that he wished he had ChatGPT right now....

09:14Jul 29, 2026

671: What World Cup Football Reveals About Strategy. The Fundamentals Problem

Most teams don't lose because of poor strategy. They lose because they abandoned the fundamentals. The World Cup proves it — and so does you...

12:39Jul 27, 2026

670: Harvard MBA Manisha Thakor on Hungry Ghost Mindset, How to Stop Being a Workaholic, Dealing with Work Addiction (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic interview with the author of MoneyZen: The Secret to Finding Your "Enough", Manish...

55:18Jul 20, 2026