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Why McKinsey Will Win In The Age of AI

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That’s exactly what Lilli is, According to them, “Employees can prompt Lilli with a question, and the tool will scan the knowledge base, locate five to seven relevant pieces of information, summarize key points, include links, and identify experts in the field.” They were experts in helping people find information.

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Do Consulting Case Study Interviews Work? A deep dive

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At the highest level, most cases are similar: The interviewer presents background on a “client’s” business problem or scenario (e.g., But now, this information is far easier to find online, and the fact that you need to prepare is common knowledge – everyone knows that everyone knows you need to prepare.

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The Pyramid Principle: A Deep-Dive Book Review (Part 1: Logic In Writing)

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This is great for me, as I love that kind of book and it’s helped me reflect on my experience at McKinsey and my attempts to figure out why I was able to develop such strong capabilities there. Instead, you need to develop a better process for synthesizing and structuring information. This drove her throughout her career.

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Issue Trees – What Are They and How Do You Use Them?

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You might develop the next leg of your tree: This tree is not perfect and the answers at the lowest level are not collectively exhaustive for all the possibilities for increasing revenue and decreasing costs. How Issue Trees Are Linked With Problem Solving. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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The Magic Of Critical Thinking: How To Make Better Decisions

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Dewey added that critical thinking is “suspended judgment, and the essence of this suspense is inquiry to determine the nature of the problem before proceeding to attempts at its solution.”. An organization succeeds by taking the results of individual critical thinking and developing processes that can be implemented by others.

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Five Freelancing Skills That Matter – Lessons From A Former Strategy Consultant

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When I first started freelancing I developed a simple page of the possible ways of working with me. In addition to this, I also developed a list of types of projects I wanted to work on. It’s best if you develop these frameworks together but they can often start as a simple list of items.

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

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So in the last 1800s, Frederick Taylor and several others in the US started exploring new ways to think about running a business. Part of the toolkit McKinsey developed was a 30-page document called the “General Survey Outline” (GSO) and it stood out for how it was different than Taylor’s “how-to” approach.