StrategyU

MAY 29, 2024

Who wouldn’t want to test a candidate’s problem-solving abilities (rather than hear about them in the traditional behavioral interview)? Who wouldn’t want to test a candidate’s problem-solving abilities (rather than hear about them in the traditional behavioral interview)? “You did how many case studies?”

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StrategyU

JUNE 12, 2021

Dewey added that critical thinking is “suspended judgment, and the essence of this suspense is inquiry to determine the nature of the problem before proceeding to attempts at its solution.”. The problem with defining critical thinking in a more detailed way is that it sends one in a circular loop.

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StrategyU

JULY 23, 2021

Managing this delicate balance is vital to ensure you lay the groundwork to building a lasting freelance business. I’ve been freelancing for four years. In the past two years, I’ve hired several freelancers and have found that many of them struggle with these things I learned in the early days of working on my own.

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StrategyU

AUGUST 19, 2024

It sounds crazy, but many people end up using an approach analogous to cutting down the entire tree when faced with a problem. They focus on actions like analyzing data or building Excel models instead of thinking about how they are going to solve it. But what is problem-solving? It is asking, “What should we do next?”

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 6, 2024

This is normal, and something that makes sense because you need a steady state of operations that is consistent and reliable to keep the business running. To do great work, you need to put information in context and to put your tasks in context, you need to have an understanding of what your business actually does.

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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. Chapter 2 (1880s? This title undoubtedly influenced James O.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Barbara Minto’s The Pyramid Principle has been one of the most influential books for business writing. It has sold millions of copies and shaped the nature of work done at the top consulting firms, especially McKinsey & Company, where she first popularized her ideas. Overall I find both Minto and her ideas compelling. Barbara Minto.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This discovery completely reframed the problem and led to a more effective solution. Why is this solution better? Good problem solvers thrive in these sessions. Analytical mindsets allow problem solvers to navigate through complexity and arrive at data-driven solutions as efficiently as possible.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 31, 2024

per year Example Project: A leading retail chain is struggling to adapt to the rise of e-commerce and wants to shift part of its business online. Technology consultants help clients implement big IT systems, whether it’s their own software, like Oracle, or third-party solutions, like SAP, in Accenture’s case. from 2023 to 2030.

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