The Possibility-Plausibility Chasm
Every founder has a vision of his product or company. A fully fledged brand, beloved by its masses of customers and admirers. It could be the amazing AI-enabled SaaS platform that […]
A Strategic Plan With Legs: Strategic Planning Part 3
Most strategy off-sites deliver a sense of cohesion for the participants –and a slightly edifying town hall for everyone else. But few go the distance of becoming the guiding document […]
Mind the (Logical) Gap—Strategic Planning Part 2
Most employees can’t make good strategic choices about how best to spend their time. The best employees will try to devise ways to increase their value to the enterprise. But without […]
Conventional Strategic Planning Doesn’t Deliver- Strategic Planning Part 1
As I write this, we have just swelcomed a new year. No doubt, you are rushing to secure the location for your strategic planning off-site! It occurred to me recently […]
Anchored to the Present
Peter Drucker famously said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Strategy manifests visions of what shall be, and builds the road to it. Over the […]
The Short Road to Ignominy
Every day we confront the consequences of actions taken in the past. It may be a slight inconvenience caused by a shopper who left their cart in a parking space, […]
Strategy When the Well Runs Dry
We are not in a recession. But the economic conditions are erratic. At best, they’re dangerously uncertain, at worst, foreboding. This is especially tough if you are a founder in […]
Private Strategy
Often, when I first ask startup founders about their strategies, they usually tell me what their goals are for the year. Or they provide a laundry list of projects that […]
The Gathering Snowball of Goals
There is one thing about which we can be very certain at the beginning of every new year. Roughly 75% of New Year’s resolutions will be forgotten by March. Of those that […]
Janus Strategy
An auto-antonym is a word that has at least 2 meanings that mean the opposite of each other. For example, one definition of “sanction” is to disallow. But another is […]