Thoughts on Leadership

Thinking and Saying is the Easy Part

Thinking and Saying is the Easy Part

Coming up with a strategy is easy. Articulating values is easy. Defining a company purpose is easy. Articulating them well is much harder. But hardest of all? *Doing* them. Making…

A Special Place to work

A New Year’s wish for all of us. There’s a Special Place to work. One that is exceptionally rare, and often only temporary. It’s a place where the leaders understand…

Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #6 – No Explicit Time to Do It

Where Your Strategy Goes to Die No. 6 – Not giving it explicit time Am I the only one who loves this time between Christmas and New Year for work?…

Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #5 – Net Zero by 2050

Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #5 – Net Zero by 2050 The challenge with Net Zero by 2050, as many point out, is that it creates no urgency. It…

Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #4 – The PowerPoint Cemetery

PowerPoint lures many a finely-honed strategy into its lair, where it then suffocates all life from it. And the ugliest of those deaths even have spreadsheets copied into the slide…

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