Complacency kills

During my summer internship recruiting at Wharton, there was only one consulting job interview I bombed. And it also happened to be the easiest one. Here is what happened. I was interviewing with a partner at Booz Allen Hamilton, a well-known consulting firm. The...

Why jaw-drops don’t happen in consulting

After my MBA, when I joined consulting, I imagined that we would solve complex business problems, and finally, when we presented our solutions to the clients, their jaws would hit the floor. As it turned out, that jaw drop never happened. In fact, in the world of...

The cost of addiction

Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist and the author of ‘Dopamine Nation,’ said that the most bizarre addiction she had come across was, shockingly, ‘water addiction.’ One of her patients would drink so much water that it would throw her system out of...

Pause before you respond

I once had this habit of responding to any question a nanosecond after the person stopped speaking (or sometimes, even before that). Maybe, I was afraid of a pause between the question and my answer. Yet, there is nothing more pleasing to our ears than a few moments...