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MARCH 10, 2024

That quote, to me, embodies the cynical perception held by some critics that a management consultant is someone who (borrowing from the sub-title of Martin Kihn’s book that was the basis of House of Lies”) “steals your watch and then tells you the time.” Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Consultants do use frameworks to guide their thinking, though not the laundry list you’ll see in case interview prep books. Remember, at the end of the day, success with these tools lies in asking the right questions, breaking down complex problems into manageable pieces, and seeing the forest through the trees.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Elizabeth Haas Edersheim, one of McKinsey’s first female partners, wrote about McKinsey’s philosophy in her book McKinsey’s Marvin Bower : We started out in 1939 billing on a per-diem basis. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? That was common among accountants and other consulting firms.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

If you are writing a book, you can think about the top-down mode as the outline you would create and revisit throughout the process. Whether you’re leading a team, starting a business, or simply trying to improve your decision-making, this meta-process can offer you something. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This book is one of the seminal texts in the consulting world and is increasingly popular in the broader business world. 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.

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JULY 5, 2020

Instead of shop floor experience, McKinsey was a Professor who had taught at schools like Columbia University and The University of Chicago, had obtained his CPA and also wrote a book titled Budgetary Control. In the 1960’s when he walked away from the firm, he sold back his shares at book value instead of cashing out with guaranteed riches.

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JUNE 12, 2021

His ideas were brought to the forefront through his book Unsafe At Any Speed that highlighted the shortcuts car manufacturers made during the production of cars which included no seatbelts. Silver writes in his book about separating signal from noise, “The signal is the truth. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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JULY 23, 2021

I’ve seen an explosion in the number of freelancers, coaches, and small agency owners who have turned their know-how into higher-priced books, self-paced courses, or hybrid course/coaching packages. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Click Here To Learn More And Enroll.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? If he can’t imagine, there’s no use analyzing. And I’m afraid that we spend too much time analyzing and not enough on imagination. We can’t really shape things without imagination.

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