How to start your strategy with “WHY”

Today is my session at SMUs Future Ready Forum where I talk about how to integrated the new digital environment into your strategy. I set out the case last week.

for the last three years, I’ve been helping companies think through and communicate strategy and it still amazes me that many companies have no clear idea  WHY they should succeed.  They have strategies, sure, and capabilities, and know where they are competing, but have no heart to their businesses, no reason WHY.Read more

5 lessons they never taught me at University

There’s a clever meme populating the internet currently…

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Everything you ever needed to know about anything, and all in two slim volumes.

I certainly don’t claim to know everything, but I’d like to jump onto this meme with my own brief contribution about the key things University DIDN’T teach me.

Do you still believe that good performance is the key to success?… Read more