Hey all I will be joining bcg as a principal soon. What makes a great principal from the perspective of mds/partners.

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I think it’s also important to know what your staff think make a great principal too. You’re focused on a one-sided view. All levels can give you solid input from bottom, peer and top levels.

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Why did you go back to consulting

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So this is you?

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Teams love you and clients want to buy work from you. That’s it really.

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They are asking for advice here from partners. Doesn’t mean that they aren’t also asking for advice from consultants in another bowl, right?

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Yeah I wanted to say that but I don't want to disparage people on a random Internet forum

Minting deck @ 5x speed and selling the same deck at 5 accounts

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Were you pre-MBA BCG or MBB?

I beg to differ but we are just two human being with our different opinions

Might want to seek opinions from PL and below. The fact that you didn’t already concerns me

Have an idea of that from my time as a ba to em as well having a few colleagues in the system. Partner side I am less well versed with.

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