Applying Core Mental Models to Strategy Consulting

As a Farnam Street post states: Mental models are how we understand the world. A mental model is simply a representation of how something works. The page provides a long list of mental models, with summaries, and books that go into further detail. According to FS, there are nine “core” mental models: The Map is Not the Territory Circle of Competence First Principles Thinking Thought Experiment Second-Order Thinking Probabilistic Thinking Inversion Occam’s Razor Hanlon’s Razor Given I’m a consultant, I thought it could be fun to invent a consulting scenario utilising all these. Note this is entirely a creation and has no relation to any client I or my company have worked with (not that I know of anyway!)