Cracked It!, Bernard Garrette
Cracked It!, Bernard Garrette
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Cracked It!
How to Solve Big Problems and Sell Solutions Like Top Strategy Consultants

Author: Bernard Garrette, Corey Phelps, Olivier Sibony

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Unabridged: 10 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/22/2019


Synopsis

Solving complex problems and selling their solutions is critical for personal and organizational success. For most of us, however, it doesn’t come naturally and we haven’t been taught how to do it well. Research shows a host of pitfalls trips us up when we try: We’re quick to believe we understand a situation and jump to a flawed solution. We seek to confirm our hypotheses and ignore conflicting evidence. We view challenges incompletely through the frameworks we know instead of with a fresh pair of eyes. And when we communicate our recommendations, we forget our reasoning isn’t obvious to our audience.

How can we do it better?

In Cracked It!, seasoned strategy professors and consultants Bernard Garrette, Corey Phelps and Olivier Sibony present a rigorous and practical four-step approach to overcome these pitfalls. Building on tried-and-tested (but rarely revealed) methods of top strategy consultants, research in cognitive psychology, and the latest advances in design thinking, they provide a step-by-step process and toolkit that will help readers tackle any challenging business problem. Using compelling stories and detailed case examples, the authors guide readers through each step in the process: from how to state, structure and then solve problems to how to sell the solutions.

Written in an engaging style by a trio of experts with decades of experience researching, teaching and consulting on complex business problems, this book will be an indispensable manual for anyone interested in creating value by helping their organizations crack the problems that matter most.

Reviews

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Goodreads review by Marks54

This is an ambitious textbook effort to train students to be problem solvers in the style of the big consulting firms. The authors are an interesting mix that do not seem tied into the typical paths for the business trade books. It is a good effort on a first read and might actually be useful, altho......more

A really good, well-structured guide into some of the basic tools and practices taught to new management consultants in intro courses, namely: - defining the problem to be solved - three modes of problem solving: hypothesis-driven, issue(-tree)-driven and design thinking - navigating between the three......more

Goodreads review by Humam

A well structured book. Good for someone who starts to have management role or having a resource to tackle a problem in their work. Structured like a paper and have a good case example. Although many cases comes from a perspective of a consultant, it still applies if you come from internal companies......more