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I used to struggle with this when I first joined - I came over from a big4 where we didn’t have any of the same supporting resources. The biggest thing I had to unlearn was the bias towards doing everything myself.
Tactically this means you should constantly be asking yourself whether what you are doing is the highest leverage use of your time, and if it’s not, figure out if it can be outsourced for someone else (knowledge teams, research services, slide production, ChatGPT) to parallel process while you focus on something higher leverage.
For example: when building a market model for a DD, high leverage activities are defining the structure + logic and socializing to make folks comfortable with methodology, rather than spending 6 hours researching stats to input. Approach would then be 1) get to an 80/20 view on what inputs are needed and do some very quick Googling to plug in directional numbers 2) send a knowledge team request to pull all the inputs with sources 3) shell the model in parallel and fill in everything as they come in
Leverage existing/previous decks/frameworks instead of starting from scratch.
Have a structured way of taking notes
I use this structure when taking notes.
1) key takeaways
2) dependencies - upstream and downstram ( if applicable)
3) risks
4) next steps
All the other stuff provided may be background noise/ nice to have
Conduct daily feedback loops with the project lead on the output produced
My experience has been that you need to change your ways of working.
1) show drafts (even outlines of key points) early
2) show WIP versions as you go
3) leverage the tools that you have (efficient elements, templates, etc.)
Use ChatGPT lol