Thoughts on Strategy

If you don’t like choosing between horrible and cataclysmic, don’t become CEO.

If you don’t like choosing between horrible and cataclysmic, don’t become CEO.

Hard choices often end up in one of two ugly places: Analysis paralysis – no decision, but just an ongoing slow pain, or flip-flopping decisions – often depending on who…

Hire the right people, and then trust them

People problems in companies tend to boil down to one of two things. Wrong people hired, or right people hired, but then not empowered. We need to both (1) hire…
Strategy Sessions are a waste of time

Strategy Sessions are a waste of time

Strategy sessions (especially, bit not only) in SMEs are usually a waste of time. Mostly because they don’t turn into what the company does. In my experience, it usually comes down…

Sometimes you need to quit to win

This is an interesting article from Fast Company. Especially for those of us schooled with the discipline to always finish what we start. Some things have to be finished (yes…

Generating activity makes problems harder

“Generating activity is not a problem; in fact it is easy. The fact that it is easy makes the real problem harder to solve. The problem is getting the right…

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