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The Magic Of Critical Thinking: How To Make Better Decisions

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Activist investor Michael Burry ’ applied critical thinking to analyze the US housing market prior to the 2008 global financial crisis. This is the secret sauce of any high-performing organization but can be hard to recognize if you were not there at the beginning. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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A Brief History of Strategy Consulting: 100 years from Frederick Taylor to the “Next New Normal”

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while still dependent on the globalized order of the modern business world. Chapter 10 (2008 -2015): The Industry Matures & Accounting Firms Build Strategy Teams. Firms like BCG continued to grow at 10% or more even through the global financial crisis in 2008 and show no signs of slowing.