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…
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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…
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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…
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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 –…
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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…
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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…
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Life Strategic Goals: To Become, To Be, or To Do?

New Year is coming, and it’s time for reflections and resolutions. And it’s time to ask ourselves: Do we want to BECOME, BE, or DO? Most life goals we set…
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Strategy in Three Minutes. Episode 21

1. Strategy and Value Exchange: Strategy as New Year’s Resolutions If you just want what you don’t have, you’ll get what you don’t want. New Year’s resolutions rarely come true.…
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Where Strategy Isn’t Born, Collaboration Dies

How I made a team out of a bunch of folks Team coaching, motivational talks, and brainstorming sessions can only do so much. They work only for groups who have…
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