All 100 frameworks
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10/10/10 Rule
Implications in 10 min, 10 mo, 10 yr
12 Week Year
Treat each quarter as a year
5 Whys
Ask why five times
80/20 Life
Which 20% drives 80% of life joy?
A3 Problem Solving
One-page Toyota problem report
AIDA
Attention, Interest, Desire, Action
Ansoff Matrix
Product × market growth options
Antifragility
Some things gain from disorder
Balanced Scorecard
Financial, customer, internal, learning
BCG Matrix
Growth-share quadrants: stars, cows, dogs, question marks
BHAG
Big Hairy Audacious Goal
Black Swan Analysis
Surface unknown-unknowns
Blue Ocean Strategy
Eliminate, reduce, raise, create
BLUF
Bottom Line Up Front
Bowtie Analysis
Causes → event → consequences
Build–Measure–Learn
Lean Startup feedback loop
Business Model Canvas
Customers, value, channels, costs, revenue
Buy a Feature
Give users virtual money to spend
Chesterton's Fence
Don't remove what you don't understand
Circle of Competence
Know what you know — and don't
Compounding
Small returns multiply over time
Cost-Benefit
Monetize costs vs. benefits over time
Crazy Eights
8 sketches in 8 minutes
Current Reality Tree
Logical tree of undesirable effects
Customer Journey Map
Stages × actions × thoughts × pains
Cynefin Framework
Clear, complicated, complex, chaotic, confused
DACI
Driver, Approver, Contributor, Informed
Decision Matrix
Options scored across criteria
Decision Tree
Branching outcomes and probabilities
Design Thinking
Empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test
Designing Your Life
Prototype 3 alternative life paths
Dichotomy of Control
What you control vs. what you don't
DMAIC
Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control
Double Diamond
Discover · Define · Develop · Deliver
Eisenhower Matrix
Urgent vs. important, four quadrants
Empathy Map
Says, thinks, feels, does
Energy Audit
Track energy gained vs. drained
Expected Value
Σ probability × outcome
Fault Tree
AND/OR logic of failure paths
First Principles
Reduce to atomic truths, rebuild up
Fishbone Diagram
Causes grouped under 6 Ms
Flywheel
Self-reinforcing loop of growth
FMEA
Failure modes & effects analysis
GE-McKinsey Matrix
Industry attractiveness × business strength
GROW Model
Goal, Reality, Options, Will
Hanlon's Razor
Don't attribute to malice what stupidity explains
Hooked Model
Trigger, action, reward, investment
How Might We
Reframe problems as opportunities
ICE Score
Impact × Confidence × Ease
Ikigai
Love, good at, world needs, paid for
Jobs to be Done
Functional, social, emotional jobs
Kano Model
Basic, performance, delight features
KPI Tree
Cascading north-star → input metrics
Lateral Thinking
Provocations to break logic
Lean Canvas
One-page business model
Margin of Safety
Build buffer for what you can't predict
Maslow's Hierarchy
Physical → safety → love → esteem → self-actualization
McKinsey 7S
Strategy, Structure, Systems, Skills, Staff, Style, Shared values
Mind Map
Radial branching of associations
MoSCoW Method
Must, Should, Could, Won't
North Star Metric
One metric that captures the value
Occam's Razor
Prefer the simplest explanation
OKR
Objective + key results
OODA Loop
Observe, Orient, Decide, Act
Pareto Analysis
80/20 vital few vs. trivial many
PDCA Cycle
Plan, Do, Check, Act
Personal Kanban
To do · Doing · Done with WIP limits
PESTEL Analysis
Political, Economic, Social, Tech, Environmental, Legal
Pirate Metrics (AARRR)
Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue
Porter's Five Forces
Industry rivalry, suppliers, buyers, entrants, substitutes
Pre-mortem
Imagine the failure first
Pros / Cons
Two-column weighing
Pyramid Principle
Answer, supporting points, evidence
Regret Minimization
Choose what you'd regret least at 80
Reverse Brainstorming
How could we cause the problem?
RICE
Reach × Impact × Confidence ÷ Effort
Risk Matrix
Probability × impact
Risk Register
Logged risks with owner and status
SCAMPER
Substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to other use, eliminate, reverse
Scenario Planning
Plan across 4 plausible futures
Six Thinking Hats
Facts, feelings, risks, benefits, creativity, process
SMART Goals
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound
STAR Method
Situation, Task, Action, Result
Story Mapping
User journey backbone with slices
STP Marketing
Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning
Strategy Diamond
Arenas, vehicles, differentiators, staging, economic logic
Stress Testing
Push assumptions to breaking point
SWOT Analysis
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
T-Shirt Sizing
XS, S, M, L, XL relative size
Three Horizons
Today's core, emerging, long-term bets
TRIZ
40 inventive principles for contradictions
Value Chain
Primary and support activities
Value Proposition Canvas
Customer jobs, pains, gains × your offer
Value vs Effort
Quick wins, big bets, fillers, time sinks
Values Clarification
Identify core personal values
VRIO Framework
Valuable, Rare, Inimitable, Organized
Wardley Mapping
Position components on evolution axis
Weighted Decision Matrix
Decision matrix with criterion weights
Wheel of Life
Score 8 areas of life on 1–10
WSJF
Cost of delay ÷ job size