The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving
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692: Wharton School Professor Matthew Bidwell on How to Build a Successful Career from the Inside
Oct 14, 202654 min
688: Michael on the U.S. Green Card Ban
Oct 12, 20265 min
687: US Open Medalist on Principles to Succeed at Any Table in Business, Sports, and Life (Strategy Skills classics)
Sep 30, 202646 min
686: How VC Shapes Startups with Benjamin Shestakofsky (Strategy Skills classics)
Sep 28, 202650 min
685: Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy (Strategy Skills classics)
Sep 16, 202652 min
684: Founder and CEO of Triggers, Leslie Zane. The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion (Strategy Skills classics)
Sep 9, 202648 min
683:Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School, Jesper Rangvid, on the End of 40 Years of Falling Interest Rates
Sep 7, 202650 min
682: Founder and CEO of High Alpha Innovation, Elliott Parker. The Illusion of Innovation (Strategy Skills classics)
Sep 2, 202648 min
681: Harvard's Cornelia Choe on How Great Leaders See Differently
Aug 31, 202640 min
680: Psychotherapist, Glenn Hutchinson, on Why Good People Cheat: What Infidelity Reveals About Decision-Making
Aug 26, 202645 min
679: Director of the K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center at MIT, Amos Winter on Global by Design
Aug 24, 202658 min
678: Social Organizational Psychologist, Jeremy Pollack, on Why Smart Leaders Still Fail at Conflict Resolution
Aug 19, 202643 min
677: Global by Design: Vijay Govindarajan on Building Better Innovations
Aug 17, 202644 min
676: The key strategy question most boards do not answer, and cannot answer
Aug 12, 202618 min
675: Porsche to Cut 5000 More Jobs After Sales Collapse. Here's What Their Strategy Is Missing
Aug 10, 202626 min
674: Social Psychologist, Owen Fitzpatrick on Why the Most Dangerous Propaganda Is the Story You Tell Yourself
Aug 5, 202652 min
673: Why Immigrants Outperform. 3 Traits You Can Build Without Immigrating
Aug 3, 202627 min
672: How Relying on ChatGPT or Claude Destroys Your Career
Jul 29, 20269 min
671: What World Cup Football Reveals About Strategy. The Fundamentals Problem
Jul 27, 202612 min
670: Harvard MBA Manisha Thakor on Hungry Ghost Mindset, How to Stop Being a Workaholic, Dealing with Work Addiction (Strategy Skills classics)
Jul 20, 202655 min
669: Stop Making Stupid Investments (with Founder of The Ultimate Investor, David Leiter)
Jul 15, 202657 min
668: Private Equity Firm CEO, Rick Walker, on Power, Success and Getting Results (Strategy Skills classics)
Jul 13, 20261h 1m
667: The Experience Economy Is Selling You Belonging
Jul 8, 202624 min
666: How to Overcome Career Frustrations with New York University's Dr. Tessa West (Strategy Skills classics)
Jul 6, 20261h 4m
665: Google's Laura Mae Martin on How to Be Productive (Strategy Skills classics)
Jul 1, 202654 min
664: Negotiations in B2B Sales and Day to Day Leadership Situations with Andres Lares (Strategy Skills classics)
Jun 29, 202652 min
663: Ex McKinsey and LBS Lecturer, Dr. Rebecca Homkes, on High Growth Strategy (Strategy Skills classics)
Jun 24, 202653 min
662: Customer Strategy in the Age of AI with Mark Abraham, BCG's Personalization Lead (Strategy Skills classics)
Jun 22, 202658 min
661: The Science of Sustainable Performance with Award Winning Science Writer Elizabeth Svoboda
Jun 15, 202653 min
660: Former Co-President and Board Member of WWE, George Barrios, on Systems Thinking, Conviction, and Leadership Under Pressure
Jun 10, 202656 min
659: The Success Trap: Breaking the Cycle of Never Enough (with Brooke Taylor)
Jun 8, 202653 min
658: Market Engineering in the Age of AI with the CEO and founder of Traction Gap Partners, Bruce Cleveland
Jun 3, 202657 min
657: Adjunct Professor at Cornell University, Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, on Critical Thinking vs. AI
Jun 1, 202648 min
656: The Habits and Systems That Shape Success (with Fredric Marshall)
May 27, 202652 min
655: BCG Managing Director and Partner, Kristy Ellmer, on Why Change Fails and How Great Leaders Build Real Transformation
May 25, 202653 min
654: Associate Director of Culture and Change at BCG, Philip Jameson, on Why Most Transformations Fail
May 20, 202652 min
653: Joe Pine, Author and Lecturer at Northeastern University, on the Future of Business
May 18, 202652 min
652: Can Democracy Survive Free Market Capitalism? (with Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University, Mordecai Kurz)
May 13, 202652 min
651: Ford School of Public Policy Adjunct Attia Qureshi on the Hidden Psychology Behind Effective Negotiation
May 11, 202650 min
650: Climate Leader and Bestselling Author, Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, on Closing the Climate Action Gap
May 6, 202650 min
649: P&G and Walmart: The Story Behind the Groundbreaking Relationship (Strategy Skills classics)
May 4, 202658 min
648: Rethinking Careers in a Nonlinear World with Venture Capitalist and Lecturer at Stanford University, Arun Gupta
Apr 29, 202656 min
647: Former Deloitte's Chief Learning Officer on Reevaluating Our Relationship with Change, Ashley Goodall (Strategy Skills classics)
Apr 27, 202652 min
646: CEO of FCLT Global and Former Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company on Turning Investor Dialogue into Strategy (Strategy Skills classics)
Apr 22, 202650 min
646: Former McKinsey Consultant Darryl Stickel on Building Trust With Consulting Clients (Strategy Skills classics)
Apr 20, 202651 min
645: Ex McKinsey expert on war games, John Horn. How to read your competitors (Strategy Skills classics)
Apr 15, 20261h 0m
644: How to Tap the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life, with Co-CEO of Transcend, Jeff Wetzler (Strategy Skills classics)
Apr 13, 202651 min
643: Leading with Intent in an AI-Driven World with Louisa Loran, Google's Transformation Growth Lead
Apr 8, 202653 min
642: Leading for Innovation in Complex Organizations (with Harvard's Linda Hill)
Apr 6, 202656 min
641: Former Bain & Company Director Michael Farmer — Differences Between McKinsey, Bain and BCG, Strategy Consulting, Helping Ad Agencies and Their Clients Navigate Change (Strategy Skills classics)
In this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic interview with the author of Madison Avenue Makeover: The Transformation of Huge and the Redefinition of the Ad Agency Business, Michael Farmer. He also wrote the award-winning Madison Avenue Manslaughter, an inside view of fee-cutting clients, profit-hungry owners, and declining ad agencies (Third Edition, 2019). In this episode, Michael speaks about the time he worked for McKinsey, Bain, and BCG, and the differences between the three consulting firms. He also shared his advice for those aspiring to build their consulting firm and discussed the technique that helped him write his first book, Madison Avenue Manslaughter. Finally, Michael shared his experience of helping in the Transformation of a Creative Ad Agency (Huge). Michael Farmer is Chairman and CEO of Farmer & Company LLC, a strategy consulting firm for advertisers and agencies. He also serves as Professor of Branding and Integrated Communications at The City College of New York (CCNY). He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and was previously a Director of Bain & Company. Connect with Michael here: https://www.farmerandco.com/ Get Michael's book here: https://www.amazon.com/Madison-Avenue-Makeover-transformation-redefinition/dp/1911687646 Madison Avenue Makeover: The Transformation of Huge and the Redefinition of the Ad Agency Business. Michael Farmer. Enjoying this episode? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo
Apr 2, 20261h 2m