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7 Steps to Bulletproof Problem Solving

Leading Blog

McKinsey alums Charles Conn and Rob McLean teach us how to be bulletproof problem solvers using a simple 7-steps approach. In the book they apply the process to individual problems such as, “Should I put solar panels on my roof?,” “What career should I choose?,” Step Two: Disaggregate the Issues. and “Should we go to court?”

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The Best Investment You'll Ever Make

Harvard Business Review

When I'd initially met him two years earlier, he'd seemed quite supportive of my career as a sell-side analyst. And regardless of whether what they desire is possible, when an employee shares with us a career goal or an innovative idea, their ambition itself should be honored. The bigger your piece of the pie, the smaller mine is.

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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

A disaggregated laptop that is lighter and more versatile, since I can use the screen by itself as an e-reader and the keyboard with other devices. cases and had decided how to organize them in meta-categories such as torts, contracts, civil procedure, criminal law, property, etc., I recently bought an iPad.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. Consider how IBM has tackled new ways of work distribution as described in Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment , a book which one of us, Ravin, co-authored.