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Use The Pyramid Principle To Communicate Like A CEO

StrategyU

Bottom-Up : Using the principles to go from lots of information to a synthesized core idea Top-down: Once you have a structured set of ideas using things like MECE, this is how you think about organizing the sequence and order of events.

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How To Give Feedback Like A McKinsey Consultant

StrategyU

Timing : Feedback is sometimes given too long after the event, reducing its impact and relevance. Be specific and use examples when giving someone feedback, especially if it refers to an event in the past. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Is this feedback on something that they can control?

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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. For example, you can automatically create Wrike tasks from Google Sheets rows or create calendar events from Wrike tasks.

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

StrategyU

Just google “investor relations” and your company and then look for the “Events & Presentations” page. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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Mini-Course Lesson 2: Using MECE in Your Work

StrategyU

Part 1: Mutually Exclusive Mutually exclusive is a concept from probability theory that says two events cannot occur at the same time. In short, it is a principle that helps you simplify complex ideas into something that can be easily understood. MECE is made up of two parts. They are equally probable and independent from each other.

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

StrategyU

This was a playbook they had perfected over the previous 30 years as business leaders looked to see what McKinsey had to say about global events. Yet over the past 10+ years, the consulting firms have lost their relevance with business leaders. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?