Company leaders rarely excel at both strategy and execution. “According to a global survey of 700 executives across a variety of industries, conducted by the strategy consulting division of PwC, only 8% of company leaders were said to excel at both strategy and...
Category: Thought Leadership
Is Anyone in Your Company Paying Attention to Strategic Alignment by HBR.org
How to achieve strategic alignment at all levels, roles and generations. “All too often, individual leaders seek — indeed are incentivized — to protect and optimize their own domains, and find themselves locked in energy-sapping internal turf wars, rather than working...
How to Run a Company with (Almost) No Rules by Ricardo Semler
Ricardo Semler shot to fame with his book Maverick, an inspiring fresh take on org design and engagement. Ricardo Semler shot to fame with his book Maverick, which cut to the core of empowering employees, whilst pragmatically addressing human constraints and positive...
Measure What Matters by John Doerr
Google has applied Andy Grove’s OKR methodology every quarter since 1999. John Doerr’s book and life’s work have given all of us access to the clear thinking and progressive management practices of Intel’s Andy Grove, who was decades ahead of his time. Google has...
How Great Leaders Inspire Action by Simon Sinek
Y-gen / millennials globally embrace Simon Sinek’s TED talk on ‘start with why’. “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe.” Simon Sinek has become a global phenomenon since this TED talk. He particularly...
Millennials in the Workplace by Simon Sinek
y-gen / millennials are just magic, a breath of fresh air we can all learn from At the link below is an excellent interview with Simon Sinek on Inside Quest. In our view, the next generation workforce is just magic, a breath of fresh air. They are all about...
Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
Richard Rumelt is brilliant! In our view, this is all time greatest thinking and resource for developing and executing strategy. As Chuck Harrington, CEO of Parsons Corporation, says: “Richard Rumelt reinforces that a strategy is not a goal or objectives. It is the...
Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies by HBR.org
Static strategy docs and top-down comms is so old school! “The strategy consultants come in, do their work, and document the new strategy in a PowerPoint presentation and a weighty report. Town hall meetings are organized, employees are told to change their behavior,...
Professor Roger Martin on What CEOs Should Really Be Doing
Professor Roger Martin is a legend on strategy. His thinking plays well to #stratapp, the world’s first org-wide strategy application that includes execution of both strategy and day to day work, alongside social collaboration with context and structure. “In my 36...
Principles by Ray Dalio and Embracing Radical Transparency
radical transparency was made famous by Ray Dalio’s book Principles. Ray Dalio champions the principle of embracing thoughtful disagreement. The ability to exchange controversial ideas without causing problems. To achieve radical transparency at work, companies need...