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The "Be Authentic" religion has always troubled me. Dogmatic. Non-negotiable. Supreme. I don't buy it. It's not the most important thing, because it positions ...
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We all know someone who never lets the truth get in the way of a good story. Many of us have elected those people ...
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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 ...
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Where Your Strategy Goes to Die No. 6 - Not giving it explicit timeAm I the only one who loves this time between Christmas ...
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Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #5 - Net Zero by 2050The challenge with Net Zero by 2050, as many point out, is that ...
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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 ...
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You've put the ring on your strategy's finger as a leadership team. But no sooner you've walked out the room than a member of ...
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I remember sitting in a leadership team strategy awayday some years back where the team agreed on its 14 priorities. ... 14. Fourteen. ...
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Here are 3 strategic objectives I’ve seen more than once:

1. Employee engagement
2. Marketing
3. Customer retention

Trouble is they’re not strategic objectives. They're ...
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Karmic Capitalist Season 2..."We've become addicted to convenience, and it's killing us".So how do you respond? Well if you're Katie Hill and Jarvis Smith, ...
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"Our ambition should not be to win, then, but to play with our full effort. Our intention is not to be thanked or recognized, ...
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You don't lead organisations. You lead people. Obvious, but so often forgotten. I know many CEOs who are at heart very human and humane, ...
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