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Why Strategy is Simple and How Developing A Strategic Perspective Can Accelerate Your Career

StrategyU

Most people don’t realize that you can find the strategy documents of most public companies by going to their investor relations page and then looking for recent presentations that they have made at conferences. These kinds of things are also included in most companies’ annual reports or 10-K documents.

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

StrategyU

At this point, I still use the Vivo Strategies for legal documents but rarely use it with anything else. However, anyone who has worked on these specific teams within the firm knows that the internal documents they share with clients are much more specific. If I can get them to edit the document directly, even better.

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

StrategyU

This is similar to what I experienced at McKinsey and one of the biggest ways to improve your writing or business problem solving is simply to spend way more time understanding the current state or issues than you are used to. . Minto believes that most documents answer four questions: What should we do?

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

StrategyU

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. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Special thanks to Antoine Buteau for his contributions to this essay.

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Problem-Solving Tools to Help Your Business Increase Productivity

Wrike

It’s proof that sometimes the best business problem-solving tools really are the simplest. . Problem: You know your team isn’t using hours effectively. employees , 49% of respondents said they have trouble locating the documents they need at work. Here’s a frightening statistic: For the average worker, only 2.8