The price of privilege

In some ways, King Charles is quite lucky — he has unimaginable wealth, privilege, and status (for no fault of his). But would you or I want to be in his position? He has to spend much of his life doing meaningless ceremonial stuff. Having endured a little bit...

Complacency kills

During my summer internship recruiting at Wharton, there was only one consulting job interview I bombed. And it also happened to be the easiest one. Here is what happened. I was interviewing with a partner at Booz Allen Hamilton, a well-known consulting firm. The...

Why jaw-drops don’t happen in consulting

After my MBA, when I joined consulting, I imagined that we would solve complex business problems, and finally, when we presented our solutions to the clients, their jaws would hit the floor. As it turned out, that jaw drop never happened. In fact, in the world of...

The cost of addiction

Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist and the author of ‘Dopamine Nation,’ said that the most bizarre addiction she had come across was, shockingly, ‘water addiction.’ One of her patients would drink so much water that it would throw her system out of...