If you want real change, then start with culture. Let me run some if/then suppositions by you: If you want to change your business model, then you need to change your culture. If you want to build an online co ...
I am a huge fan of Clay Shirky, and he wrote this post about the death of newspapers over on Medium. Then today I see an HBR blog post about how publishing is NOT dead. I'm not sure the two articles are as contradictory ...
We all are highly receptive to the word luxury- luxury cars, luxury house, luxury vacations. All of these come attached to visions of instant status recognition and high-end quality. Included in these sought after luxury ...
Almost everyone is on the data bandwagon these days. Even those who might still be skeptical about the whole "big data" thing will likely admit that using data in decision making is critical, and we all have stories of o ...
Does everyone in your organization understand risk in a similar way? Have you even talked about it? When you choose a strategy, have you considered the risks (and that includes the risk of foregoing opportunities, as wel ...
The other day I came across yet another article/post declaring that "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" (or lunch, or dinner, or afternoon tea...). I tweeted it out, copying my friend and colleague, Jeff De Cagna, sinc ...
Roger Martin has a great article in the current Harvard Business Review about how strategic planning is a lie. I think it's great, of course, because I've hated strategic planning for years now, but I think Martin does o ...
In case you haven't seen it, here's a quick interview I did with JP Moery for his show, Association Labs, where we talk about both strategy and culture for associations. ...
Conventional wisdom says it is. Heck, I kind of agree. This is why we pay people the big bucks, right? They have to make the tough strategic calls that make or break an organization. While that certainly makes sense, the ...
In Monday's post I talked about Rita Gunther McGrath's HBR article on Transient Advantage. She suggests that in today's fast-paced, ever-changing world, companies should not be looking for a sustained competitive advanta ...
