The business frameworks no one teaches you (but you end up using anyway)

I’ve used dozens of frameworks over the years - 7S, 5 Forces, BCG Matrix, customer journey maps. They have their place, and many are helpful. But the most important ones? The ones I use over and over again in rooms full of doubt, tension, or indecision? No one ever taught me those. They weren’t in a case study or a PowerPoint deck. They came from long client meetings, hallway conversations, and the quiet work of making sense of messy realities. These are the frameworks that live in the margins - the ones we invent when nothing else quite fits.