Mental Models
Discover 7 methodologies related to Mental Models to help you improve skills and solve problems.
Mental ModelsStrategic Analysis
First Principles Thinking is a mental model that breaks down problems to fundamental truths and reconstructs solutions from the ground up.
Disruptive Innovation
Strategic Design
Product Design
Technological Breakthrough
#Elon Musk #SpaceX
Mental ModelsProblem Solving
Systems Thinking is a holistic approach that helps people understand complex problems by recognizing structures, causal relationships, and feedback loops within systems, avoiding fragmented solutions.
Complex problem-solving
Strategic Planning
organizational management
environmental protection
public policy
#Holistic view #Complex systems #Feedback loops #Causality #Mental models
Strategic AnalysisMental Models
Porter’s Five Forces Model is a classic strategic management tool that analyzes five competitive forces in an industry to help businesses identify competition dynamics and profit potential, guiding better strategic decisions.
Industry competition analysis
Strategic Planning
Corporate decision-making
#Stategic Management #Industry Anlysis #Competitive Advantage
Mental ModelsStrategic Analysis
Integrative Thinking is a decision-making model that emphasizes finding creative solutions beyond simple trade-offs. Instead of choosing between conflicting options or compromising, it seeks to integrate the best of both to create innovative outcomes.
Complex decision-making
strategy development
conflict resolution
innovation thinking
#integrative thinking #innovation #decision-making #strategy #complex problems
Mental ModelsThinking Models
The Multiple Thinking Model is an approach that integrates diverse ways of thinking to understand and solve problems, emphasizing perspectives from different disciplines to overcome the limitations of single-lens thinking.
Complex problem-solving
innovation thinking
strategy planning
interdisciplinary research
#multi-perspertive #interdisciplinary #innovation #system thinking
Mental ModelsDecision Making
Leverage Thinking is a mindset that focuses on using limited resources to create outsized impact by identifying "leverage points" that amplify input-output efficiency.
Investment decisions
Entrepreneurship
time management
career planning
Resource allocation
#leverage #investment #time management #entrepreneurship #efficiency
Mental ModelsProblem SolvingMcKinsey
The MECE Principle, introduced by McKinsey, is a structured thinking method that emphasizes "Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive”
Strategy consulting
Structured thinking
business analysis
Communication
#logical thinking #structured analysis #Mickinsey #framework