The Pyramid Principle

Minto, B. (1987). The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1987

Link

https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA81771248

Cited from

communication_media_studies, mathematics

Cited by

4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Inverted Pyramid
  • Executive summaries and briefings. Bottom-line-up-front writing in military, government, and consulting: executives reading the first paragraph get the recommendation; analysts reading on get the supporting analysis.

    This sourceStandard reference for bottom-line-up-front executive writing and the hierarchical pyramid principle (top conclusion, supporting arguments, sub-supports) of which the inverted pyramid is roughly an in-order traversal.

• Partition
  • The single structural commitment — MECE in the consulting shorthand, mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive — turns a possibly fuzzy or overlapping carve-up into a discipline a system can rely on.

    This sourceSource of the MECE (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) discipline for structuring issue trees and analyses.

Mechanisms

• Barrier Decomposition
  • Its discipline of choice is MECE decomposition

    This sourceMECE decomposition separates a problem into mutually exclusive parts intended to be collectively exhaustive.

• Option Map
  • Organizing by dimensions rather than listing keeps the groups mutually exclusive and the field collectively covered, which is what lets a group reason about the shape of their choices rather than argue model by model.

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