Strategy has no voice
During a recent conversation a good friend of mine, a business leader, said, "Strategy is the biggest waste of time I can imagine. Nothing ever happens because of a strategic plan!" Once you get past[...]
Strategic failure: when your strategy takes a hit
When the conversation heads towards professional boxing, it frequently involves the heavyweight division. These are the people who have the potential for a sudden, surprising or even spectacular ending to any fight. Foreman. Frazier. Louis.[...]
Moral Courage
“I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.” - Rosa Parks On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was seated on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. When[...]
Business models matter
"There was a time not so long ago when giants roamed the countryside. Enormous smoke-belching, fire-breathing giants that roared like rolling thunder as they tore through the night, stitching the nation together with shining ribands[...]
Are you learning as fast as the world is changing?
Things change. Whether we like it or not, the world is changing. Our approach to change matters a great deal as to how we view change, either good or bad. If we adopt a victim-like[...]
How current is your basis for competition?
In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain wrote, “The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be[...]