Space Rockets, Mushrooms, and Button Factories
Choose the Right Business Growth Model What we kill makes us stronger. How fast a company can develop depends not just on its innovative ideas but on how much chaos…
The Sweet Spot of Fulfillment
How to Be Happy and Successful in Your Work True success requires three key components. If your day ends and you haven’t seen a ‘chase your dreams, work hard’ quote,…
Stop Competing on Features – Start Winning With Feelings
How a Psychologist Can Outperform a Startup Founder Poor businesses view customers as walking wallets. Good ones see them as friends. Great ones seduce them like lovers — charming, amazing,…
The Difference Between an Innovative Product and a Reindeer Sweater
You can’t outspend the big guys — but you can outsmart them Marriage and innovation share more than you’d think — mainly the same mistakes, repeated confidently. This article is…
Strategy That Works: 13 Commandments of Effective Strategic Thinking
Battle-tested ideas to cut through strategic confusion Great strategists are people who once saw the world differently. In this post, I’ll tell you what they see – and you’ll be…
Notes of a Contrarian Strategist. Episode 36
Your numbers exceed the outlook? Hold the champagne. “Sainsbury’s Profit Beat Market Views” – this headline in The Wall Street Journal caught my attention this morning. It sounds like good…
Strategic Flexibility ≠ Spinelessness: The Myth About ‘Agile Strategy’
This post includes a free gift for you! My collection of jokes and one-liners about strategy — Strategy Quips — is available as a free download for my subscribers. You’ll…
Profit is yesterday’s result of the day-before-yesterday’s decisions
As a board member and advisor, I often receive financial reports from the companies I work with. When a company’s profit is below target, my colleagues often ask: “Why did…
You shouldn’t adapt, you should learn
Is the world a safer place than it was in your childhood? When I ask people this question, they usually say no. To them, the world is a bomb loaded…