When asked about important skills to succeed in the consulting field, there are generally some pretty standard responses: communication, organisation, team work, problem solving, and analytical thinking. Whilst these are undeniably central to the role of a consultant, there is one skill that no one ever acknowledges. Consulting is a ‘people game’. Your role as […]
The incriminating title of this article was inspired by Charles Tilly’s book ‘War Making and State Making as Organized Crime’, which describes an instrumental, yet generally unrecognized trait of any organisation. We tend to consider our institutions as being means to a specific end, a social instrument for pursuing a distinct goal. The Ministry of […]
In school, students spend most of their time working on homework assignments and projects, which, despite their importance in reinforcing skills learned in class, have no immediate benefit to the world. Similarly, in traditional management consulting roles, employees often utilize the latest tools to solve their clients’ problems, often without considering the impacts beyond the […]