What is the most important engagement you've worked on? I just started one that is redesigning the entire corporate strategy for a large retail bank. The scope of this thing is just massive and covers absolutely every business line in the company. I'm personally responsible for a pretty large workstream and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. Any advice on how to handle the responsibility of a project of this scale?
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So how much do consultants know about the business they are about to conceive strateies for? I assume the point is to not know much to be able to think outside the box where management has been unable to. Just curious on how the project assignment process functions.
This should help you with any stress that you're feeling:
Go into an unoccupied stall in the bathroom.
Rub one out.
Wash hands.
Go back to work.
For double the effect, go into an occupied stall.
When I interned I was staffed on a major pricing initiative for a household-name F100 company; from what I gathered, if we fucked up the analysis they were going to be in deep shit. It was doubly stressful because I had no idea what the hell I was supposed to be doing, and nobody was interested in explaining it to me. The whole thing somehow worked out, and I'm glad it did, but it easily could have turned into a disaster.
Anyway, the attitude I took into it was this: if I fuck up seriously enough to harm the client, the people above me are going to take at least as big a hit as I am. So if they trust me enough to put me in this role, fine; I'm just going to put my head down and do the best that I possibly can. If I fail, I'll know that I've done my best, and if the people above me want to get pissed off at me for any mistakes, that's fine, because they're the ones who put me in this position.
Basically, just do your best and shrug off the rest. If the people above you let you fuck their client, that's their mistake, not yours. You just have to trust that they wouldn't have made partner if they didn't have a good grasp of what their team is capable of.
Week 1 is always a shithole. It eventually works out (you make it work) by the time you leave. That's why you got hired and get paid. The partner sold it because he knew it could be done. Whenever my superiors check on me, I often say "Believe!".
2x2, abacab, thanks for the advice. Now that I've started, I've been too busy to even think about the pressure. Just keeping my head down and plowing through.
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