StrategyU

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In consulting, I worked with many companies helping them to develop strategies. Although these were often focused on different levels of the business and different topics, all of the “strategies” were similar. These kinds of things are also included in most companies’ annual reports or 10-K documents.

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StrategyU

JULY 23, 2021

At this point, I still use the Vivo Strategies for legal documents but rarely use it with anything else. When I first started freelancing I developed a simple page of the possible ways of working with me. In addition to this, I also developed a list of types of projects I wanted to work on.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This can lead to frustration and wasted effort on trivial matters (I once had a manager who made me capitalize a word that really shouldn’t have been capitalized on every document). The easiest way to develop a strong rapport with colleagues is to get to know them. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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StrategyU

AUGUST 19, 2024

And on two levels: Problem-solving process: how you solve problems Meta-process: how you talk about how you do #1 The best consulting firms are obsessed with both of these things. In many companies, the time spent on developing problem-solving skills and fundamentals is surprisingly small.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 6, 2024

They might say yes initially but then I ask if they’ve read strategy reports, investor documents, done store visits (if appropriate), and done interviews to understand their clients better. You can find it in corporate strategy documents, earnings call transcripts, press, and public interviews. If so, how much? He was supportive.

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StrategyU

JULY 5, 2020

So in the last 1800s, Frederick Taylor and several others in the US started exploring new ways to think about running a business. 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.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This is great for me, as I love that kind of book and it’s helped me reflect on my experience at McKinsey and my attempts to figure out why I was able to develop such strong capabilities there. Instead, you need to develop a better process for synthesizing and structuring information. How do we implement it? Why Did It Happen.

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