StrategyU

JANUARY 20, 2025

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. If youre ready to go deeper, consider enrolling in Think Like a Strategy Consultant.

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“Strategy” is a word that attracts a lot of excitement in the business world. People who work on strategy get paid more and senior executives like to use the word a lot to talk about their decisions. In consulting, I worked with many companies helping them to develop strategies.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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 the feedback timely and specific?

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StrategyU

JANUARY 20, 2025

One of the most important ideas in consulting problem solving is MECE. If you’ve been around current or former strategy consultants, you probably heard someone say this. Part 1: Mutually Exclusive Mutually exclusive is a concept from probability theory that says two events cannot occur at the same time.

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StrategyU

JULY 5, 2020

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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