Thoughts on Strategy

Ask not what purpose can do for your profit

Ask not what purpose can do for your profit

With a nod towards JFK… Ask not what purpose can do for your profits, but what your profits can do to serve your purpose. There’s a lot of talk about…

Build Back Better means Build Back Kinder

Build back better means build back kinder. With a special responsibility if you lead a company. With talk of a K-shaped recovery, where fortunes ascend for some while they plummet…
Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.

Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.

“Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood” I love that quote from Josh Waitzkin’s ‘The Art of Learning‘. He was applying it to how we display mastery as…
Let’s hope all businesses come to this

Let’s hope all businesses come to this

“The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.” I’m not as sure as Thiel…
Should I scale or should I grow?

Should I scale or should I grow?

Business has an obsession with growth. And usually unlimited growth. A target is set, and we always laud people for beating it. Sometimes with an accelerator for beating it significantly.…

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