Consultants love MECE – Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive

2026 Aug 11

If you have lived long enough you know…

In complex systems
Nothing is mutually exclusive
Nothing is collectively exhaustive.

What do we do about what we don’t know.

The world is not clean boxes on a slide.
Listen, sense, connect, dissect, question and distil – like the sailor who sails his old boat.
It’s alive – the one observing it, unknowingly influencing it.

Love your MECE – and not be mesmerised by it
Stay curious of what lies outside the boxes.

 

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