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

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A common strategy is to start with a brand and then shift to working under your name later. In my case, I started freelancing under the name “Vivo Strategies.” At this point, I still use the Vivo Strategies for legal documents but rarely use it with anything else. This can be hard to wrap your head around.

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Why McKinsey Will Win In The Age of AI

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Big firms are set up to dominate even more… I think AI tools will help firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Bain (though Bain was much later to invest in knowledge management) develop a bigger lead in management consulting. Invest heavily in software solutions to sell ongoing services to existing clients at higher margins.

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

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The history of strategy consulting starts with Frederick Taylor and the Scientific Management movement but took many twists and turns as it evolved into its current state, an industry looking inward and pondering where it fits in the new technology-powered business world. one that would focus on business strategy.

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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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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.