Starting consulting with Accenture Strategy in a couple of weeks. Coming from the nonprofit education sector. What is one piece of advice you would tell yourself as a few consultant?

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Being brutally honest, empathy is a tool and can be used in both positive and negative ways.

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People are easily manipulated into acting in certain ways such as doing work outside of the SoW to alleviate someone's "pain". There's a reason that non-profit projects are notorious for being low revenue high PITA.

Same journey teacher to consultant ( with an MBA in between).
Ask questions and don't feel bad about feeling stupid....and practice tactical stuff as much as possible (slides, excel) ...ask ppl for best samples of what good looks like...and remember it's a marathon not a race....
May the odds be ever in our favor!

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* sprint...thanks lol

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I think S& meant Marathon not a sprint… although it sometimes literally is in consulting

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You have to have sharp data skills.

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