Umbrex is pleased to welcome Yann Parer with YP Consult. Yann is a consultant with 4 years’ experience working with McKinsey and Australian boutique firm PQ Partners with extensive experience in mining, technology M&A, business transformation, strategy, and sustainability. Yann serves companies across Australia in projects ranging from group strategy and value chain optimisation to valuing intangibles and making the business case for nature stewardship. He has also led acquisitions and partnerships in the mining technology sphere. Prior to completing…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Tanaka Chiimba with Impact Strategy Consulting.  Tanaka possesses 15 years of management consulting experience. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte and Touche, she cut her teeth in consulting at McKinsey and Company where she spent 7 years serving leaders of mining, energy, infrastructure and public sector (education and tax administration) institutions across a broad range of topics. Tanaka likes to be considered as more of a generalist. She is drawn to opportunities where…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Ivo Sarges with Synapsos. Ivo spent 11 years with Monitor Group in Frankfurt and Johannesburg and ran Peppers & Rogers (a global customer centricity consultancy) in South Africa for another 3 years. Since 2013 he operates as an independent consultant with a focus on assisting large corporates to design, develop, equip and manage their own in-house consulting capabilities. He is an expert strategy facilitator and has developed particular workshop based applications for strategy facilitation which…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Igor Buchatskiy.  Igor is a Managing Partner of BGlobal Capital. Prior to joining BGlobal, Igor has run large farming companies in all the major sectors of agriculture – animal husbandry, row crops and sugar production – and worked as a consultant specializing in Strategy, Operational Improvement and Digital Innovation for McKinsey & Co in Brazil and for Bain & Company in CIS. Igor has also co-founded an FMCG company that today is the leading producer…

1. Liz Specht on coronavirus math. 2. “What Time Do You Wake Up? Write It in the Comments and I Will Tell You Why You Are Bad and Lazy Compared with Me, a 3:15 a.m. Waker-er Upper Who Owns Not One but Two Vitamix Blenders” and more morning routines from The New Yorker Daily Shouts 3.  “Cultivate an environment that will help you. Environments are like cheat codes  If you can surround yourself with builders, you will have a higher chance of becoming…

1. Amazing photos of bookstores in China.  Never seen anything like these in my life. 2. Turns out Cuban infant mortality statistics not as good as reported. 3. Why slate operators matter. 4. My kids showed me this TED talk: What happens when you reply to spam email.   And we all laughed out loud. 5. Saw this film short at the New York International Children’s Film Festival this past week and really loved it: My Grandfather’s Memory Book…

1. Why didn’t the ancient Romans play Dungeons and Dragons?  A thought piece on inventions that are “behind their time.” 2. The 52 most fascinating things Devin Sami learned in 2019 3. Favorite apps of 20 entrepreneurs 4. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows…

1. David Brooks argues that The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake 2. More Americans went to the library than to the movies in 2019 – CBS. I would not have guessed that….

1. Umbrex member Paul Millerd’s piece, The Boomer Blockade: How One Generation Reshaped the Workforce and Left Everyone Behind, was blogged about by Tyler Cowen. That’s like being picked as the Oprah Book-of-the-Month in my universe. Congrats to Paul. 2. How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class, according to Yale Law School Professor Daniel Markovits, in The Atlantic. My post on LinkedIn about this article opened, “Other than a failure to define terms, historical errors, a confusion of correlation and causation, a failure to consider the…

1. McKinsey legend Pete Walker has written a book: Powerful, Different, Equal: Overcoming the Misconceptions and Differences Between China and the US 2. Update on the war-torn economy in Syria 3. Chris Brogan predicts skills that will be most valued in the coming years 4. Tyler Cowen’s spring 2020 Industrial Organization reading list and syllabus 5. ‘Ask yourself, “Would I bet $10,000 on being able to fulfill this commitment? If not, why not?”’ Leo Babauta on The Heartbreaking Effects of Being Only Partly Committed to…

1. “Ma computes that between 2014 and 2018, China lost 17 million industrial jobs while adding 46 million service jobs. ” The Money Illusion 2. “I’m going to describe an industry. Then, you’re going to guess which one I’m talking about. You have three choices: commerce, education, or politics.” David Perrell asks What the hell is going on? 3. 10 CRM systems for freelancers. This article doesn’t include Pipedrive, which is the CRM I recommend. 4. Government Schooling and Supermarkets. Cafe Hayek 5. 14 ways…

1. Why video gaming will take over 2. The New American Dream, David Perrell 3. 19 Things To Remember, Holstee. #11: Remember than no one has it figured out. 4. Places to go in 2020, according to Tyler Cowen…