career / professional development framework from my consulting days

I'm gonna share with you the most important thing that I learned at my first job in management consulting. I worked 60 hour weeks for 3 years to acquire this information and I'm giving it to you for free. So follow for more videos like this. To this day, I remember my first month on the job. I learned consulting firms think of human talent as their most valuable asset by far. It's not software or hardware. And that's important to apply rigor and structure to our development. I found it immensely valuable that for every client project I was on, I got frequent feedback from multiple sources along all these different development areas. Now that I've left consulting to work in media, I still try to check myself with a similarly structured framework. I would describe these first two skills as table stakes. They form a solid foundation. Number one, impact-driven problem solving. It literally just means, can you take an unstructured problem with ambiguous inputs, messy data, different conflicting sentiments, your own instincts, and drive it towards a concrete structured answer? Number two, do you have knowledge about your company's business model, pain points, strategic bets, as well as the broader industry and its competitors? And can you apply that knowledge in a way that actually makes a difference for the business? Frankly, this is what differentiates you from a very smart and competent college student because raw intelligence and applied knowledge are both important, but they're different things. Number three, this is a skill you can develop, but it can be perceived as a more fundamental mentality/personality thing. Entrepreneurship. To me, entrepreneurship means one, ownership. You're not just a busy worker bee who can take orders. And two, you're able to proactively identify opportunities to drive positive outcomes, do things differently and faster, etcetera, even if and especially if that is outside the scope of your role on paper. Number four, this feels like a soft skill, but so many people get blocked here, and that is team leadership/people skills. Can you provide clear actionable feedback? Can you make everyone on your team feel included? Can you give input on people's work without making them feel some type of way? And can you build strong working relationships with people with different personalities? And finally, to no one's surprise, is number five, the actual business outcomes that you drive. I will say part of it is having and working really hard to have an impact, part of it that a lot of us is actually telling the story of our impact. Let me know if that was helpful and how you would adjust this framework to suit your development goals, and I'll see you. Bye.