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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. employees , 49% of respondents said they have trouble locating the documents they need at work. Here’s a frightening statistic: For the average worker, only 2.8

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

StrategyU

Most people don’t realize that you can find the strategy documents of most public companies by going to their investor relations page and then looking for recent presentations that they have made at conferences. These kinds of things are also included in most companies’ annual reports or 10-K documents.

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Five Freelancing Skills That Matter – Lessons From A Former Strategy Consultant

StrategyU

Managing this delicate balance is vital to ensure you lay the groundwork to building a lasting freelance business. At this point, I still use the Vivo Strategies for legal documents but rarely use it with anything else. If I can get them to edit the document directly, even better.

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How To Give Feedback Like A McKinsey Consultant

StrategyU

The Problems With Most Feedback There are many issues with traditional feedback. My person Pet peeves : Managers often focus on minor annoyances rather than major issues. Too many times, I have seen managers default to focusing on their own neurotic pet peeves. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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How To Build A Culture Of Excellence In A Consulting Firm

StrategyU

Specifically, they all: #1 Have a top-management mindset #2 Obsess over process and meta-process #3 Embrace clear “standards of performance” Principle #1: Top Management Mindset – Have employees that can think “from the top “ Many people operating inside companies are laser-focused on the everyday tasks of their jobs.

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How Top-Tier Consultants at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG Really Solve Problems 

StrategyU

How are we planning on formatting various documents? At GE, where I worked previously, no one talked about anything beyond how to format spreadsheets to avoid triggering the managers and higher-ups. While at McKinsey, we were trying to solve something we had never solved before!

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

StrategyU

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. Chapter 1: Frederick Taylor: “The System Must Be First”.