Strategy in Three Minutes. Episode 22
1. Strategy and Value Exchange: Your market’s vision will drive your customers’ passion The kind of thinking that creates new markets. If you see your market through your product, your…
5 Pitfalls of Data: Why You Should Bet on Intuition While Strategizing
Worse than building a strategy solely on data can only be crafting one while ignoring data. In 2020, John Donahoe, then Nike’s CEO, declared ‘data-driven marketing’ a bedrock of his…
How leaders use hard and soft management tools effectively
Absolute order means death. Life and development thrive on chaos. As a former CEO, I know you desperately want to ensure everything in your business is organized, put in place,…
Seeing The Future in the Rear-View Mirror
Recalling the future Almost all failed business strategies have one thing in common – the future assumptions they rely on turned out to be wrong. The bad news is that…
Having what you want isn’t enough. Want what you have
Entrepreneurs and CEOs need life strategies to thrive. Friday is the time to reflect. Chasing rainbows can only take you so far. Epicurus argued that happiness is the absence of…
Strategy Is the Story of a Company Written About its Future
Five days a week, I share short notes on business strategy on Substack Notes and LinkedIn. Here’s the collection of the best notes from 2024. Find your New Year’s gift…
Business As The Art of Breathing Underwater
Iceberg of Ignorance In 1989, Sidney Yoshida, a business executive from Japan, claimed that: Frontline workers know about 100% of an organization’s problems. Supervisors – about 74%. Middle management –…
How To Set Life Strategic Goals: To Become, Be, or Do?
The purpose of life isn’t happiness: it’s usefulness I dedicate this pre-New Year edition of the Strategic Seeing newsletter to the art of thinking strategically in life. Guess the industry…
Strategy As an Organization’s Nervous System
Control the feedback loop Christopher Columbus didn’t intend to discover America. In 1492, his BHAG, a Big Hairy Audacious Goal, was to find the western sea route from Spain to…