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I'm still chewing on the implications of the triad. One possibility might be: if you find yourself in conversation with a good businessperson, you might want to break down their expertise by exploring how they see each leg of the triad.

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Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

Jul 21, 2021

6/ That core shared mental model is basically a triad. For convenience we'll name it first, before diving in: a) Supply b) Demand c) Capital This is taken from her 2010 chapter in Informed by Knowledge (snippet below):

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Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

Jul 22, 2021

Then, you might want to ask hypotheticals as follow ups (e.g. some change happens to one of the legs — supply chain is screwed up; capital markets dry up) and see how they reason about the changes in the other two legs.

Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

DiBello also has this bit about testing MBA students and finding that the 'scores reflect their backgrounds'. So, like, if you come from finance, you might be great at demand and capital, but lousy in supply, and companies should test for that.

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All of this is fuzzy right now, because I don't know how to *use* it. The strategic rehearsals that DiBello and her team have invented are powerful ways of teaching folks the system of their business, but it's too time consuming to do (and requires too much expertise to design).