Running a business without strategy is like driving your car without a clear destination and map to get there. It is both confusing and inefficient. Business isn’t something you make up as you go along. The leader needs ensure he/she is well informed about external industry dynamics and the needed related internal capabilities. The best leaders anticipate, then create the future using a well-informed strategy to make it happen. They also ensure everyone in the organization is clear about this direction and why it’s important.
What Are You Not Seeing? Strategic Blind Spots Every CEO Should Address Every once in a while, I like to interrupt the flow of one of my Vistage meetings or…
The Growth Trap There is a dangerous assumption many business owners make when things start moving in the right direction. They see revenue increasing, backlog growing, new opportunities appearing, the…
Mastering the Building Blocks of Strategy A Practical Blueprint for Building Enduring Competitive Advantage Many leaders find themselves…
How Strategy Champions Win: Turning Bold Ideas Into Market Power “A good strategy honestly acknowledges the challenges being…
Can ChatGPT Help You Think Strategically? One Leader Put It to the Test — Here’s What Happened “AI…
The Weight of Leadership Is Growing—Here Are the Four Loads You Can’t Ignore “Leadership used to be about…
The best companies don’t try to be great at everything—they become extraordinary at the one capability that consistently…
Change is the only constant—and business models are no exception. In their article “When Is the Right Time…
Leadership Lessons and the Future of AI: Insights from Michael Dell Vision, adaptability, and bold bets on technology.…
Business leaders are expected to be strategic, and while organizational obstacles can prevent you from translating intent into…
Business is a high-stakes game. The way we approach this game is reflected in the language we use…
In 1979, a young associate professor at Harvard Business School published his first article for HBR, “How Competitive…
In a world of rapid change, looking for certainty can obscure opportunity. Taking smaller yet bold steps provides…
For organizations to truly innovate and grow, leaders in every role and at every organizational level must be…
There has never been a more difficult time to be a CEO — the urgency for bold and…
McKinsey’s latest findings on organizational health demonstrate that it remains the best predictor of value creation and a…
Growth—in revenues and profits—is the yardstick by which the competitive fitness and health of organizations is measured. Consistent…
Many managers view strategy as a complex subject, but at its essence it boils down to three questions:…
Formulas may be road-tested approaches to business challenges, but formulas have flaws. What worked yesterday might not be…
Recent global turbulence raises a question: Is the world shifting to a new economic regime for the long run?…
Acquisitions and alliances are two pillars of growth strategy. But most businesses don’t treat the two as alternative…
I’m recently taking the online Stanford program Product Management: Accelerated. One of the lectures I found very helpful for…
Many organizations embark on large-scale transformations, only to end with frustrated leaders and worse-than-expected long-term results. These efforts typically…
Why is it so difficult for established companies to pull off the new growth that business model innovation…
The challenge in today’s world is not the lack of information but the judgment to use it,” they…
If an executive had fallen asleep in 2019 and just woke up, she wouldn’t recognize the business world of…
Strategy plays out in a world of probabilities, not certainties. That’s why you need to know your odds
Downturns are a recurring fact of life in every industry. Sooner or later, demand for an industry’s products…
The characteristics that help an organization succeed have changed over the past century. While a highly structured, top-down…
Drawing on McKinsey’s extensive research into growth and leadership as well as our experience in partnering with leaders…
For many companies, a strong, data-driven culture remains elusive, and data are rarely the universal basis for decision…
It’s not news that organizational transformations are prone to failure. To understand the skills, mindsets, and capabilities behind…
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