What is the best career advice you’ve ever gotten, either at your consulting firm or otherwise?

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Choose to work with people / teams that support you and make you feel safe. The sexiest project in the world isn’t worth a toxic team, but you can learn and grow a ton from “boring” projects where you’re surrounded by the right mentors and managers. Source: did this at MBB and am now a top ranked manager because I found an amazing group of partners who helped me grow.

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Does “If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullsh*t” count?

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You win

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1- You spend more of your awake time at work than at home- so make sure you are doing something you love and are passionate about and where they desire you for who you are
2- The company culture matters more than just $ bc refer back to #1
3- Be yourself, your whole self. You can’t be one person at home and another at work-they will bleed over and being two people will cause you stress- so be yourself and refer back to #1

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I’m not saying this is the BEST advice, but one piece of advice that’s been helpful: keep emails to senior leadership succinct.

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Following as I’ve seemingly made every mistake

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I feel you. Me too in a lot of ways. Hang in there

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1. Spend the first 5 years of career learning, being a sponge
2. When you’ve stopped learning anything new, leave
3. When you leave, choose your boss, not the firm

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This!

Family 1st. We aren’t saving lives

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Your immediate coworkers are not your friends.

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fake it til you make it

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Always remember you are just a consultant

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The company will take as much as you’re willing to give. You’re responsible for your boundaries

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Perception is reality*

*sometimes

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Heinrich?

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Pleasing your boss is far more important than pleasing the client.

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Learn the things no one likes, own it and learn to love it. I’ve been in governmental accounting for my whole career so for me that was the budgetary accounting and Statement of Budgetary Resources. I learned to focus on it and learn it well early and now I’m usually sought out for staffing because of it. I’m sure this is easy to apply across most sectors.

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You are anybody

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Had an old Colonel tell me to go home. I wasn’t going to save the Air Force by staying late. No truer words have been spoken.

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