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Essays and playbooks on getting promoted, building a career in consulting and corporate, and growing a business — from eight years at Deloitte and a decade of running growth for other people's brands. No theory, no jargon, no recycled LinkedIn advice.
Essays on getting promoted and building a career in consulting and corporate.
Selling, managed revenue, running the project, coaching the team, internal politics — and building your promotion case on the side.
Selectivity, strategy vs implementation, generalist vs specialist. The differences that actually change your career.
The travel isn't Shanghai. Soft skills beat Excel. And it's far more fun than anyone admits.
Induction in the Cotswolds, qualifications nobody used, five projects in two years, and a safe place to fail.
The method behind the decks: audience and purpose, the strawman, action titles, SCR and the Pyramid Principle. It's structure, not design.
Physics at Imperial, a startup that failed, no consulting internship, and the cycle already closed. Two Deloitte and PwC offers anyway.
Analyst to consultant is a formality. Manager is a commercial bet — managed revenue, risk, and whether you shape the work or just do it.
Going for promotion too early. Betting everything on one director who then left for Dubai. Saying yes to all of it.
Work smart not hard. Follow your passion. Get an MBA. Just be yourself. Four pieces of advice I disagree with, and what I did instead.
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