From the course: Strategic Thinking Tips to Solve Problems and Innovate
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Use the MECE principle to organize your thinking
From the course: Strategic Thinking Tips to Solve Problems and Innovate
Use the MECE principle to organize your thinking
- One of the most common yet frustrating problems we have on a nightly basis is choosing what we want to watch on Netflix. You end up going in circles for hours, only to end up watching something you've seen countless times. What I'm about to teach you is a tool to help you better organize your thinking and identify new opportunities. And it could be used in all aspects of your life, even outside of work. The MECE principle stands for mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. Mutually exclusive ensures there are no overlaps. Collectively exhaustive ensures there are no gaps. Now let's decide what you want to watch on Netflix using MECE. To start, we break down the options into two groups. The first option is a TV show, and the second option is a movie. We choose to watch a TV show. Since you cannot have an option that is both a TV show and a movie, we know these two options are mutually exclusive of one…
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