“Do you think we’re about to go into recession? How’s that going to impact?” I’ve been getting asked this a lot by the owners and CEOs of companies I work and interact with. And honestly, if the professionals in the FT can’t consistently call it, I’m pretty confident I can’t. So I’d rather figure out […]
Strategy
Is all growth good?
Is a lack of growth failure? I find it fascinating that when I’ve asked a CEO why their business exists, or why they founded it, no one ever says “to grow it”. It’s always about something they saw that needed fixing, or an opportunity to take something they’re good at and do it better, or […]
Switch your problem perspective to what you can learn
Mother nature ripped a hole in your strategy. Government flip flops hacked it bigger. Then the wonderful variety of individual human responses, alongside an uncertain but hoped for recovery made that hole a shape-shifter. What if we actively welcomed problems as a way to grow rather that fearing and avoiding them? What if we built […]
You can’t have it all. But you can have what’s important
I get somewhat fed up seeing and hearing advice about how you can “have it all”. Sure, at some level, usually a transactional one, you can go from either/or to both/and. But at a life level? At a company level? Or at a country level (the main reason I don’t envy politicians)? Not so much. […]
Where strategy goes to die No. 9 – The framework is rarely the problem or the solution
A common response when strategy doesn’t seem to be happening is to throw out the framework for implementing it and look for a new one. But in my experience, the framework is rarely the problem. The far deeper and bigger problem is discipline. I strongly believe in the importance of frameworks for delivering strategy. Some […]