"Are you a warrior?" is a question I’ve been asking myself at least once a week for the past year. It’s the theme of a workout I started that includes close to 100 pull-ups, 100 push-ups, 50 plyometric lunges and 4 x 400-meter sprints. As you can imagine it’s a pretty challenging workout that usuall [Read More]
The only thing worse than painstakingly creating a complicated business deliverable – be it a deck, a report or a financial model – is doing it on a projector or TV in front of your colleagues or clients. “Can we center that text? Is that box vertically aligned in the middle?” “Is that Arial? I thi [Read More]
It's that time of year again! Campus interview season. Well, truthfully I'm not sure when it isn't interview season anymore. Summer maybe? That aside...interviews can be stressful and take up a good deal of candidate "gut share" as they jockey for coveted internships and full-time positions in a [Read More]
A few weeks back I put the call out for any interns willing to share advice from their internship and one of my students, Gloria Chan, answered the call. On an "Awesome Scale" of 1-to-10, Gloria is a 14. Why 14? Gloria's energy and positive attitude is infectious. In my class, she approached every c [Read More]
I would venture a guess that the single most asked question in the month of October (other than "Trick or Treat?" of course) is: "Why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself?" Last week I attended my annual ritual kick-off of events on campus meeting students and getting to know the incoming c [Read More]
Last Friday, a colleague - Matt Blair - and I spoke to a group of masters students from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business about moving up in the corporate world. The ask from the students was simple: "What can we do to move through the ranks quickly as we start our jobs this spring?" [Read More]
A few years back, I compiled a long list of interview questions from some of my current and former students. The list ranged from behavioral questions and case studies to those mind-twisting stumper questions. Over the years I posted this list on number of blogs and shared this list with my student [Read More]
I was thinking the other day about a speech I gave years ago titled Be the Spork where I talked to a group of incoming masters students about combining multiple competencies to make themselves indispensable and more attractive to their potential employers. I think this advice holds true for every on [Read More]
I was speaking with a colleague the other day and we were discussing practical leadership advice for our consultants. Sometimes this kind of advice waxes on at length about the various skills and competencies one must master while moving up in the ranks of an organization but this advice was differ [Read More]
