Southwest’s Strategy SNAFU-Video
Francis Wade and I try another Live Video. This time we excavate Southwest’s history and its recent ignominy! I have written a LOT about Southwest over the years. Most recently […]
AI and Strategy- Video
In this conversation Francis Wade and I talk about what means to activate strategy for employees—and whether AI can help to do that. Click the image below to view.
Energy From the Future
Whether explorers or entrepreneurs, the greatest source of energy and genius is the image of the distant new world we are creating. Most of us know that it takes time […]
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 […]
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 […]