
The Case For Using More And More Complete Investment Cases
Investment cases include far more than just an analysis of return on investment. At best, they are fully-fleshed out value equations, considering the benefits and costs that matter most to investors of financial resources, reputation, and time and attention. Keep this...

How Trump’s First 100-Days Impact Your Next 100-Days
If we agree on nothing else, let us agree that Trump’s first 100-days have produced significant changes in the conditions in which you operate. Shame on you if you don’t re-assess your next 100-days in the context of those changes. The prescription is to re-look at...

How Strategies And Tactics Should Merge When Time Is Of The Essence
knocked a hole from the kitchen to a bedroom and turned the bedroom into a play room for our kids our first weekend in the house.

How A Burning Imperative Helps Build A High-Performing Team
The component of a Burning Imperative that is most important in building a high-performing team is co-creating. Bryan Smith laid out five ways to “persuade” someone: tell – sell – test – consult – co-create. If you tell someone to do something, the best you can ever...

How Tactical Capacity Is Essential To High-Performing Teams
The building blocks of Tactical Capacity accelerate executive onboarding and the development of high-performing teams. Each building block has a key component. In building high-performing teams it’s important to put all the building blocks in place and even more...

The Two Most Important Questions In Almost Any Business Situation
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Why Strategy Is Useless Without Enabling Resources
There are wrong resources, places, ways and times.

Why It Matters That John Donahue Was Never The Right CEO For Nike
His technical strengths were not what was needed at a consumer-oriented product innovator.

Why Being Good Enough Is An Especially Powerful Strategic Choice
Play to win by being predominant, superior or strong .Play not to lose by being above average or good enough. Or choose not to play

Revisiting The Most Important Choices As A Leader
There are almost always a very small set of choices that have the greatest impact. Everything else flows from them.