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Your Best People Are Leaving. Here’s What Your Strategy Has to Do With It.
Talented people want to work on something that matters and can see where it is going. Most strategies give them neither.
May 30
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Ten Questions Your Strategy Should Answer (And Probably Doesn’t)
A diagnostic you can run this week. Most strategies describe what the firm will do to itself. The ones that win describe what is changing in the world.
May 23
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Thematic Ownership at Scale: How to Create Accountability Across Thousands of People
Executive accountability for strategic direction is necessary. It is nowhere near sufficient.
May 16
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The CEO as Chief Storyteller
A strategy that cannot be communicated cannot be executed. The evidence suggests that how a CEO talks about strategy predicts competitive outcomes years…
May 9
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Beyond Porter: A New Framework for an Uncertain World
The strategy frameworks most executives rely on were designed for a world that changes more slowly. The world has moved on. The frameworks have not.
May 2
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April 2026
How to Build a Foresight Process Your Leadership Team Will Actually Use
Most organisations scan the environment. Almost none connect what they find to decisions that matter.
Apr 25
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Three Tests Every Strategic Theme Must Pass
Most strategies list priorities. The firms that dominate their industries organise around something more specific.
Apr 18
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The Five Transformative Forces That Are Reshaping Every Industry
A practical framework for identifying the structural forces that determine competitive outcomes, and why most firms are looking in the wrong place
Apr 11
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One Strategy, Five Stories
How to communicate the same strategic logic differently to every audience, and why most organisations get this wrong.
Apr 4
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March 2026
Why ‘Disruption’ Is the Wrong Word
The forces that reshape industries are slow, structural, and visible for years. The disruption narrative hides this, and the strategic consequences are…
Mar 28
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The Attention Economy of Strategy
What your leadership team looks at matters more than what it decides.
Mar 21
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How Strategic Alignment Unlocks Market Dominance
The story of my three-year PhD, 8,430 companies, and a new concept called Thematic Strategy
Mar 14
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