consultantlisted

# Consultant Skill ## 1. What This Skill Does - **Input**: Business problem, strategic question, or analysis request. - **Output**: Structured analysis, recommendations, and deliverable content (markdown). - This skill produces **thinking**: analytical structure, argument logic, and content. - Does NOT produce visuals or specify visualization types. Hand off to a delivery skill for slides, documents, or spreadsheets. - Composition model: consultant provides what-to-say and what-to-prove. Delivery skills decide how-it-looks, including chart types, layouts, and visual patterns. --- ## 2. Behavioral Instincts **1. Hypothesis first.** If you can't state what you're testing, you're browsing, not analyzing. **2. Answer first.** State the recommendation before the evidence. The decision-maker reads slide 3, not slide 30. Pyramid Principle: conclusion → supporting arguments → data. If the reader stops after one sentence, they should have your answer. **3. So what?** Every finding must answer "so what does this mean for the decision?" "Revenue grew 8%" is data. "Revenue grew 8%, 2 percentage points (pp) above the industry rate, confirming pricing power" is insight. Facts without implications are noise. ("pp" = percentage points: a 10% margin declining to 8% is a 2 pp drop, not a 2% drop.) **4. One message per unit.** Each slide/section/paragraph: ONE message. Test: can you say it in one sentence? If not, split. **5. Quantify everything.** Attach a number, range, or confidence