Last week I blogged about a strategy being nothing but a hypothesis. It quickly became one of my most popular blogs. In it I stated that the biggest single failure of a strategy is because management is trying to answer the wrong question. This week I thought I’d give you a sample of 4 wrong
I have facilitated countless workshops for executive teams. Sometimes we kick goals because the exec team have done their homework and really know their business and the challenges they face. They have done enough of the hard-smart work to know what they need to tackle and now they are working through the options and determining
I have always been fascinated by the old question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” According to one article I read prior to writing this blog, the chicken came first because the formation of eggs is only possible due to proteins found in a chicken’s ovaries. Because that was the answer I wanted to
Last blog I said it was good to be common and pointed you to my latest paper on building tribes with a common purpose. This blog I’m not so sure you will be happy to have something in common with insurance companies. I used to work in the insurance industry. I was there at the
Why do I say it’s good to be common? You aren’t common and you know it. Every one of us is special. I am a member of several tribes. There is my closest group of friends, we are a tribe from high school. My golfing buddies I do a trip with every year. My neighbours