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Doing More Of The Wrong Things…Is Still Doing The Wrong Things

October 26, 2017
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One of the old maxims of job hunting was the concept that you could win people over by being a problem solver. That might have even been something that was effective before the Internet and modern management because in a command and control setting where information was limited, figuring out the problem and how […]

August 25, 2017
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A lot of the things we read online about the effectiveness or the success of a business or a career lately comes down to the brute force theory of life: which is more of everything is better. I mean there are “thought leaders” that have built their whole careers on crushing it, working 20 […]

Is This Your Strategy’s #1 Challenge?

In too many organizations, the conversation about strategy comes down to one simple idea: “What can we do right now?” Not, “what should we do right now?” But “can.” That’s a problem because more and more in our businesses, the challenges we are facing aren’t about a skills gap, but are more so caused […]

10 Ideas That Should Be Driving Your Organization’s Strategy!

I read somewhere that there is a huge gap between people that think of themselves as being strategic thinkers and those that are actually good at it. I’m not certain that this is coming up because people don’t have the understanding of what it means to be strategic in their thinking. Or, if it is […]

Do you really have a deficit?

It feels like we are always at a deficit in some area. Here are a few examples: “Not enough hours” “Too much to do” “Stretched too thin” “Just don’t have the will” All of these share one thing in common, they can be fixed by focusing…

How Do You ID The Right Opportunities For Focus?

Seth Godin wrote about triaging opportunities and that’s actually a pretty interesting idea. Lately I have been working on a number of different opportunities and projects, and if I am not careful, I can get overwhelmed with things that I might be missing the best opportunities for me and I might not be offering up the […]

Are You Adding Or Subtracting?

Dave Trott over in the UK wrote a great short blog post today called “Strategy Is Sacrifice.” It is brilliant because in a short analogy, Dave differentiates strategy for those that might struggle with it generally using wartime aircraft to show that subtraction is often the most necessary thing. In most of the strategic projects […]