Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive
For widely read folk: https://www.caseinterview.com/mece
/rant
In practice, I've seen people conflate mutually exclusive with independent levers in a business or system.
That is fine I guess, as long as you don't go around thinking that savings on employee perks are your revenue. Don't be an idiot.
/endRant
From Concepts popular in Management Consulting and structured business thinking
This work borrows heavily from the sources mentioned in the References. My thinking is also influenced by the limited exposure to Modern History, Sociology and Business History at large.
I am fundamentally, a maker, an engineer. I bring the biases of that thought process into this writing and editing. I break information into lego pieces. I do not aim for being
Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive
For widely read folk: https://www.caseinterview.com/mece
/rant
In practice, I've seen people conflate mutually exclusive with independent levers in a business or system.
That is fine I guess, as long as you don't go around thinking that savings on employee perks are your revenue. Don't be an idiot.
/endRant
From Concepts popular in Management Consulting and structured business thinking
I also attempt to separate fact from opinion.
Yet, I'm but human. My selection of facts might be warped by the innate human need to build a Narrative