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Review by TurkuazN -- The MECE Muse by Christie Lindor
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4 out of 4 stars
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I rate The MECE Muse by Christie Lindor 4 out of 4 stars. If I could give half stars I would probably go down to 3.5 for the repetition of concepts for the first half of the book. These repetitions, however, did not affect my reading pleasure enough to stop me from reading or nor did it lead me to skip pages. The book is "specifically for consultants in the making but everyone can benefit from it". This promise fulfills itself rather quickly as the author gives a lot of tips and tricks for anyone who is in a professional setting of any kind. The book gets right into it and even gives jump cuts to further chapters in the book for extra information for people who want to know more about the topic or notion at hand.
Lindor starts by outlining three types of consultants and builds the book on how to be a great one. She mentions early on in the book that she spent years looking for a mentor in her early career days and when she could not find one, she decided to become the mentor she wished she had. It feels like in this book she is doing just that for the reader, mentoring them.
I found this book to be written in a very reader-friendly fashion. What I mean by that is that anyone with any background can take something from it without feeling overwhelmed while reading it. Granted, it is a long book but it was designed to be a comprehensive book for people who are considering a career in consultancy. It covers a wide range of topics from dressing codes to planning a trajectory for future and everything in between. The layout is almost like a textbook. Every chapter starts with bite-size information and all the terms that may be foreign are explained clearly in little grey boxes on the side of the page. Sometimes these explanations are at the level of a high-school student which, I think, is valuable for the younger ones among us who are researching possible directions for university tracks. The chapters are defined clearly so the reader can go back and forth starting from the topic that interests them the most.
Although each chapter has a different general subject, certain themes become repetitive throughout the book. Whether to use this as an opportunity to solidify the message and internalize the lesson or become impatient and start skipping pages is up to the reader. For me, it was the former rather than the latter.
The most intriguing feature of the book for me was the extensive amount of interviews and the insights Christie Lindor and her interviewees have provided. The author is upfront about the method and the selection of the interviewees who are top-notch leaders in their field and I was pleasantly surprised about the level of diversity that was achieved. It made the information that much more valuable to me. Through these interviews, she debunks the misconceptions about consultancy which creates a tangible trust in reader and in my opinion does a great job at easing the mind of people with these misconceptions. The interviews have a general arc to demonstrate the habits and experiences of great consultants. While said interviews match the general topic of the chapter, they are also used by the author to strengthen the newly introduced information in the reader's mind.
Another thing that I appreciated was the fact that the author cited everyone's work that she benefited from. This allows the reader to research the subject, theory or idea of interest further easily instead of disrupting his/her reading flow to check the end of the book for credits.
Lastly, after finishing the book I could not help but wonder how the "great consultants" that were interviewed would react to this book as a whole. I hope the readers will get to read that sometime in the future for the next editions of this book.
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4 out of 4 stars
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I rate The MECE Muse by Christie Lindor 4 out of 4 stars. If I could give half stars I would probably go down to 3.5 for the repetition of concepts for the first half of the book. These repetitions, however, did not affect my reading pleasure enough to stop me from reading or nor did it lead me to skip pages. The book is "specifically for consultants in the making but everyone can benefit from it". This promise fulfills itself rather quickly as the author gives a lot of tips and tricks for anyone who is in a professional setting of any kind. The book gets right into it and even gives jump cuts to further chapters in the book for extra information for people who want to know more about the topic or notion at hand.
Lindor starts by outlining three types of consultants and builds the book on how to be a great one. She mentions early on in the book that she spent years looking for a mentor in her early career days and when she could not find one, she decided to become the mentor she wished she had. It feels like in this book she is doing just that for the reader, mentoring them.
I found this book to be written in a very reader-friendly fashion. What I mean by that is that anyone with any background can take something from it without feeling overwhelmed while reading it. Granted, it is a long book but it was designed to be a comprehensive book for people who are considering a career in consultancy. It covers a wide range of topics from dressing codes to planning a trajectory for future and everything in between. The layout is almost like a textbook. Every chapter starts with bite-size information and all the terms that may be foreign are explained clearly in little grey boxes on the side of the page. Sometimes these explanations are at the level of a high-school student which, I think, is valuable for the younger ones among us who are researching possible directions for university tracks. The chapters are defined clearly so the reader can go back and forth starting from the topic that interests them the most.
Although each chapter has a different general subject, certain themes become repetitive throughout the book. Whether to use this as an opportunity to solidify the message and internalize the lesson or become impatient and start skipping pages is up to the reader. For me, it was the former rather than the latter.
The most intriguing feature of the book for me was the extensive amount of interviews and the insights Christie Lindor and her interviewees have provided. The author is upfront about the method and the selection of the interviewees who are top-notch leaders in their field and I was pleasantly surprised about the level of diversity that was achieved. It made the information that much more valuable to me. Through these interviews, she debunks the misconceptions about consultancy which creates a tangible trust in reader and in my opinion does a great job at easing the mind of people with these misconceptions. The interviews have a general arc to demonstrate the habits and experiences of great consultants. While said interviews match the general topic of the chapter, they are also used by the author to strengthen the newly introduced information in the reader's mind.
Another thing that I appreciated was the fact that the author cited everyone's work that she benefited from. This allows the reader to research the subject, theory or idea of interest further easily instead of disrupting his/her reading flow to check the end of the book for credits.
Lastly, after finishing the book I could not help but wonder how the "great consultants" that were interviewed would react to this book as a whole. I hope the readers will get to read that sometime in the future for the next editions of this book.
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The MECE Muse
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