How to master the seven-step problem-solving process
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 14, 2019
Structured problem solving can be used to address almost any complex challenge in business or public policy.
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McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 14, 2019
Structured problem solving can be used to address almost any complex challenge in business or public policy.
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Even the most inscrutable problems have solutions—or better outcomes than have been reached so far. Here’s how the best problem solvers crack the code.
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Critical thinking and problem-solving. They should plan and execute their education, career, finances, and health-related personal and professional growth objectives. They are personal qualities and abilities, inter-personal skills, and professional capabilities. Personal qualities and abilities. Creativity and innovation.
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If you’d like to go to the previous section you can find the following links to each: Logic In Writing Logic In Thinking Logic in Problem-Solving Logic In Presentation. You might create a simple framework looking at things from a high-level: strategy, finance, operations, and talent.
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But occasionally finance or engineering. The problem with that is they, they’ve grown up in silos, and that’s the only silo they know. I would just go grab problems. And, and you know that part of the mechanics of problem solving is the more you do it, the better you get at it. The world needs problem solvers.
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