Thoughts on Strategy

Recession if you have a conscience AND run a business

“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…
Is all growth good?

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…
Switch your problem perspective to what you can learn

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…
You can’t have it all. But you can have what’s important

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…

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…

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