Abstract

Our long-selling book has been updated for the first time in 10 years to help the readers acquire skills for surviving the VUCA era through a 90-minute reading. The book introduces all the know-how of strategic consultants to share a "roadmap for thinking" in uncertain times.

Logical thinking is no doubt an essential way of thinking to make smart decisions because it employs the “mece (=mutually exclusive collectively exhaustive)” framework. But by nature, logical thinking can only be based on past incidents and information at hand, which in some cases can be a drawback. Sometimes it is necessary to forget about being exhaustive to derive a wide range of scenarios, and to prepare plans B and C when things go wrong.

This book is rich in examples and cases as well as training that you can start today.

Author’s Information

Hirai Takashi, Professor, Department of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, born in 1965. Graduated from the College of Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo, and completed a Master's course at the Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo. MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA). Worked at Bain & Company, Dell, Starbucks, Roland Berger, etc., before assuming his current position in 2017.

Watanabe Takashi, Partner, Bain & Company Graduated from the School of Commerce, Hitotsubashi University, and MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA). Worked at Fuji Bank, Amazon Japan, Roland Berger, etc., before assuming his current position in 2019.