Project manager came from industry and keeps asking me to make non-MECE waterfalls and it’s driving me bananas. I’ve tried explain alternative clusters to make it MECE but he says keep it his way and add a foot note. Will the consulting gods ever forgive me?

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Would it actually be the end of the world if something wasn’t MECE? It’s definitely a consulting compulsion 🤷‍♂️

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@Mck1 agree there, a you can’t double count in a waterfall chart 😂. But MECE as a concept is definitely overvalued in consulting. Having come from previously come from and since moved back to industry, it’s not really even a thought that comes up... but I don’t remember a week without it in consulting 🤦‍♂️

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We make things MECE so they hold up in court when the lawsuit comes after the client says they blew the budget on a deck because they were duped and not because they were a moron.

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