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What is the MECE principle? A powerful, problem structuring framework MECE is a fundamental, problem structuring framework that stands for Mutually Exclusive, Completely Exhaustive. Why is it so popular with management consultants? Well, management consultants essentially spend all day solving problems - its a huge part of their job. As a result, the better consultants get at quickly decomposing problems and bucketing them into key issues, the better they get at their job! Who coined the phrase MECE? While its not exactly clear who coined the phrase MECE, one of the definitive books on logical problem solving and problem structuring is Barbara Mintos The Pyramid Principle. More importantly though, its used day in and day out by all the leading consulting firms. Breaking down the MECE principle Lets apply the principle of MECE to learning about MECE itself, well separate it out into its own two components and then look at each component in detail. This will give us a thorough understanding of the core principle itself and make it easy for you to apply in any problem structuring situation. Part 1: Mutually exclusive Mutually exclusive means that the buckets of a proposed problem solving framework are completely independent of each other. If you think about the individual words themselves, mutually implies that all entities involved share the trait and exclusive means that all entities involved are exclusive (meaning they dont include the others). Thus, mutually exclusive describes a set of entities that definitionally do not include each other. Think of it this way: mutually exclusive is a Venn diagram where the circles do not overlap. A non mutually exclusive Venn diagram For a little comic relief, lets consider the entities Desserts and Tacos. Now, ordinarily you might think these are mutually exclusive entities, since anything thats a taco wouldnt be a dessert and vice versa, anything thats a dessert wouldnt be a taco... but, in t