Leadership Adaptability Assessment for CEOs and Senior Leaders
March 25, 2026
If you are looking for a leadership adaptability assessment for CEOs, a practical executive self-assessment for change leadership, or a business leadership tool to improve adaptability and decision-making, this guide will give you…
Leadership Business Plan Template: A One-Page Strategic Planning Tool
March 9, 2026
This Leadership Business Plan is designed to help leaders capture the most critical elements of their strategy on a single page. Rather than producing lengthy documents that are rarely revisited, this framework focuses…
New Business Year Playbook: A 30 / 60 / 90-Day Focus for Leaders Who Want Results
January 30, 2026
The underlying principle is simple and deliberate: a plan that’s too big to explain is too big to execute. By keeping priorities small, expectations clear, and progress measurable, you give your team the…
Strategic Plan Template
October 19, 2025
A Strategic Plan You’ll Actually Use (Not Just Admire) Most strategic plans end up as shelf décor—impressive, wordy, and ignored. I’m not interested in that. I created a plan that fits on a…
Strategic Pivot Options (For Small Business Owners)
October 19, 2025
When the market shifts, you’ve got two choices: cling to the old plan or make a smarter one. I’m not interested in buzzwords or five-year fantasies—I want moves that work this quarter. A…
Business Growth Assessment Tool
October 19, 2025
Real growth comes from strong basics executed consistently—clear goals, a tight customer focus, a reliable sales rhythm, clean handoffs in operations, and numbers you can trust. This tool gets your leaders on the…
Business Contingency Planning Made Simple
October 19, 2025
Business Contingency Planning Made Simple Leaders always need to be thinking in terms of contingencies and scenarios. Hope isn’t a strategy. Markets fluctuate, suppliers falter, and systems malfunction at inconvenient times. This guide…
Scenario Planning Guide Using Porter’s Five Forces
October 19, 2025
See around corners—before the market turns them. This practical guide helps you pressure-test your strategy against real-world “what ifs” so you can move faster, protect margins, and spot opportunities early.
Debt, Growth & Crisis Policy – A Strategic Guide For Small Business Owners
October 15, 2025
The economy you’re operating in isn’t “normal.” It’s a structural shift: tighter credit, higher rates, workforce constraints, geopolitical pressure, digital disruption, and a more volatile policy environment. You’re feeling it in interest expense,…
Winning Moves for Uncertain Times A Strategic Playbook for Business Owner
August 2, 2025
Strategy Is No Longer a Luxury—It’s a Lifeline and We’ve Created a Playbook Running a business without a strategy is like sailing without a compass. The waves of disruption are real—rising debt, unpredictable…
List and description of business organizational design frameworks with assessment tool
March 3, 2025
This assessment turns organizational design from ad-hoc tinkering into a repeatable, evidence-based decision. It shows where your structure helps—or hinders—your strategy and gives you a clear path to align people, processes, and culture…
Small Business Strategies To Keep and Build Momentum
November 25, 2024
Keep Your Business Moving Forward—Momentum On Purpose Momentum is everything in a small business. When you’ve got it, growth feels natural and wins stack up. When you lose it, even simple tasks feel…
The “Why” of Goals
November 25, 2024
The Why of Goals is a tool designed to help you uncover the purpose and emotional connection behind your objectives, creating a clear pathway to achieve them.
How To Scale Your Business Successfully Despite Economic Conditions
November 25, 2024
How to Scale Your Business Successfully Despite Economic Conditions provides practical guidance for business owners seeking strategic expansion, without relying on irrational optimism or retreating due to fear. It outlines the essentials for…
Assessment Questions and KPIs for Each Stage of the Business Lifecycle
November 9, 2024
Every business moves through seasons—launch, growth, maturity, reinvention, and sometimes, decline. Each stage has its own set of challenges and opportunities, but too often, leaders try to apply the same thinking and measurements…
Capacity Building Methodologies to Ensure Your Organization’s Success
August 18, 2024
A Strategic Blueprint for Small Business Owners Committed to Sustainable Growth and Organizational Excellence Thriving in today’s business environment requires more than agility or ambition—it demands structure, clarity, and the discipline to build…
Leadership Discussion Document – Offense or Defense?
July 20, 2023
Clarity beats anxiety. Choose the few moves that matter, name the owners, and build the weekly habit that keeps everyone honest. That’s how you stop playing defense and start building the company you…
Annual Goal Setting Worksheet for Professional and Personal Goals
June 3, 2023
Annual Goal-Setting and Performance Assessment Tool A Reflective Planning Resource for Leaders Who Want to Align Their Growth, Goals, and Legacy Most leaders are so busy executing that they rarely pause to ask…
Strategic Planning Outline
December 7, 2022
A strategic planning outline serves as a foundational guide for businesses to define their vision, analyze their position in the market, and set clear objectives. This document encourages businesses to consider critical factors…
Strategic Plan Implementation Workshop
January 24, 2022
Workshop document offering guidance and specific recommendations to ensure effective Strategic Plan implementation.
Strategic Partnership Screening Criteria
April 16, 2021
Business Partnership Screening Tool This tool gives leaders a disciplined way to vet potential business partners. Instead of relying on gut feel or sales pressure, it walks teams through a structured set of…
BCG Henderson Institute
December 16, 2022
At its core, the Institute is Boston Consulting Group’s think tank—built to explore and develop new ideas across business, technology, economics, and science, and to translate those ideas into insights leaders can actually…
Growth Institute
November 25, 2022
At its core, Growth Institute is an online executive education platform designed specifically for business owners, CEOs, and leadership teams who are trying to scale. It combines world-class content, coaching, and community into…
MarketResearch.com
September 10, 2022
MarketResearch.com: Depth Over Guesswork—When You Need to Know, Not Assume There’s a difference between having an opinion… and having conviction. Most business decisions start with some level of uncertainty. A new market. A…
Free Business Lessons – Harvard Business School Online
February 6, 2022
Harvard Business School online business courses Why Most Learning Doesn’t Change Behavior—and What Actually Does Most business owners are not short on learning. They’ve read the books. Listened to the podcasts. Attended the…
The Business Model Analyst
November 30, 2021
The Business Model Analyst Understanding a Business Isn’t About What It Does—It’s About How It Works Most people can describe a business. What it sells. Who it serves. What industry it’s in. But…
Wharton@Work
August 25, 2021
Wharton@Work The Slow Drift Most Leaders Don’t See Coming Most leaders don’t wake up one day and realize they’re behind. It happens gradually. The world changes. Markets shift. Technology evolves. And you’re still…
MindTools
July 5, 2021
MindTools A Management and Leadership Skills Development Platform MindTools is a digital learning and development platform focused on building management, leadership, and workplace effectiveness skills. It provides a library of on-demand resources designed…
Strategy + Business
February 16, 2021
strategy+business A Global Business Strategy and Leadership Publication strategy+business is an award-winning business management and corporate strategy publication published by PwC and associated with the global Strategy& consulting network. The platform provides articles,…
MIT Sloan Management Review
February 16, 2021
A Research-Based Management and Leadership Publication MIT Sloan Management Review (MIT SMR) is a research-driven business publication published by the MIT Sloan School of Management. Founded in 1959, the platform focuses on leadership,…
McKinsey Quarterly
February 16, 2021
A Business Strategy and Management Thought Leadership Publication McKinsey Quarterly is McKinsey & Company’s long-running business strategy and management publication. It provides research, executive insights, interviews, and analysis on leadership, strategy, operations, organization,…
Knowledge@Wharton
February 16, 2021
A Business Research and Executive Thought Leadership Publication Knowledge at Wharton is the digital research and thought leadership publication of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. The platform publishes articles, interviews,…
Kellogg Insight
February 16, 2021
A Business Research and Leadership Insights Publication Kellogg Insight is the research and thought leadership publication of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. The platform translates academic research and faculty expertise…
JimCollins.com
February 16, 2021
A Leadership Research and Management Thought Leadership Platform JimCollins.com is the official website of business researcher, author, and leadership thinker Jim Collins, known for his research on organizational excellence, leadership, company performance, and…
Harvard Business Review
February 16, 2021
Harvard Business Review A Global Business Leadership and Management Publication Harvard Business Review (HBR) is a leading business management and leadership publication produced by Harvard Business Publishing, an affiliate of Harvard Business School.…
Executive Book Summaries
February 16, 2021
A Business Book Summary and Executive Learning Platform Summary.com is a business learning and executive education platform best known for its Executive Book Summaries®, condensed text and audio summaries of bestselling business and…
Businessballs.com
February 16, 2021
A Leadership, Management, and Personal Development Learning Platform BusinessBalls.com is a free online leadership, management, and personal development resource offering articles, frameworks, training materials, templates, and educational tools for individuals and organizations. Founded…
McKinsey – The week in charts
February 16, 2021
A Data Visualization and Business Insights Publication McKinsey’s “Week in Charts” is a recurring data visualization and business insights series published by McKinsey & Company. The platform curates charts, graphs, and visual analytics…
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Reinventing creative thinking Luc de Brabandere recounts an experience where he was asked to define “thinking out of the box.” He realized that he had focused too much on the “creative” aspect and not enough on…
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Genius Network Presents: Cameron Herold – Vivid Vision Success starts with a clear vision. In this powerful presentation, renowned business growth expert Cameron Herold shares the transformative concept of Vivid Vision—a strategic approach to aligning your company’s future with clarity, purpose,…
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All BIG THINGS Must START SMALL! | Jeff Bezos | Top 10 Rules This video distills the wisdom of Jeff Bezos, the visionary founder of Amazon, into ten essential rules for success. It emphasizes that even the most ambitious ventures begin with humble beginnings, highlighting the…
Mastering the building blocks of strategy
July 25, 2025
Mastering the building blocks of strategy In McKinsey & Company’s article “Mastering the building blocks of strategy,” authors Chris Bradley, Angus Dawson, and Antoine Montard argue that strong strategy is neither a rigid…
How Strategy Champions Win
July 22, 2025
How Strategy Champions Win In McKinsey & Company’s article “How Strategy Champions win,” authors Alejandro Krell, Alex D’Amico, Andy West, Dago Diedrich, and Michael Birshan, with Antoine Montard and Whitney Zimmerman, examine what…
Three Lessons From Chatting About Strategy With ChatGPT
December 6, 2024
Three Lessons From Chatting About Strategy With ChatGPT In MIT Sloan Management Review’s article “Three Lessons From Chatting About Strategy With ChatGPT,” authors Christian Stadler and Martin Reeves test whether generative AI can…
Four Leadership Loads That Keep Getting Heavier
December 6, 2024
The Weight of Leadership Is Growing—Here Are the Four Loads You Can’t Ignore In MIT Sloan Management Review’s article “Four Leadership Loads That Keep Getting Heavier,” author Melissa Swift argues that leadership has…
What’s your superpower? How companies can build an institutional capability to achieve competitive advantage
October 22, 2024
The best companies don’t try to be great at everything—they become extraordinary at the one capability that consistently beats competitors. In their article “What’s Your Superpower?”, McKinsey partners Brian Quinn, Cristina Ferrer, and…
When is the right time to reinvent your business?
October 22, 2024
Change is the only constant—and business models are no exception. In their article “When Is the Right Time to Reinvent Your Business?”, Wayne Borchardt, Lang Davison, Matthew Duffey, and Nicole Wakefield at PwC…
Direct from Michael Dell: Leadership lessons and the future of AI
October 14, 2024
Leadership Lessons and the Future of AI: Insights from Michael Dell Vision, adaptability, and bold bets on technology. Michael Dell has spent decades at the forefront of digital transformation, guiding Dell Technologies from…
6 Ways to Bring Strategy into Your Work Every Day
July 15, 2024
Business leaders are expected to be strategic, and while organizational obstacles can prevent you from translating intent into strategic actions, so can your personal limitations and practices. It doesn’t have to be this…
The Right Game: Use Game Theory to Shape Strategy
June 9, 2024
Business is a high-stakes game. The way we approach this game is reflected in the language we use to describe it. Business language is full of expressions borrowed from the military and from…
The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
May 12, 2024
In 1979, a young associate professor at Harvard Business School published his first article for HBR, “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” In the years that followed, Michael Porter’s explication of the five forces…
Why strategists should embrace imperfection
April 29, 2024
In a world of rapid change, looking for certainty can obscure opportunity. Taking smaller yet bold steps provides a more sure-footed path through uncertainty. Conventional approaches to strategy have had to adapt in recent…
A Growth Strategy that Creates and Protects Value
April 15, 2024
Growth That Creates and Protects Value In “A Growth Strategy that Creates and Protects Value,” Harvard Business Review authors David A. Hofmann and John J. Sumanth argue that innovation should not be treated…
CEOs, Is Your Business Strategy Bold Enough?
April 6, 2024
CEOs, Is Your Business Strategy Bold Enough? In “CEOs, Is Your Business Strategy Bold Enough?”, Tim Ryan, U.S. senior partner of PwC and founder of PwC’s Trust Leadership Institute, argues that today’s CEOs…
Organizational health is (still) the key to long-term performance
February 22, 2024
McKinsey’s latest findings on organizational health demonstrate that it remains the best predictor of value creation and a sustainable source of competitive advantage in today’s global marketplace. Organizational health refers to how effectively…
How Fast Should Your Company Really Grow?
February 17, 2024
Growth—in revenues and profits—is the yardstick by which the competitive fitness and health of organizations is measured. Consistent profitable growth is thus a near universal goal for leaders—and an elusive one. To achieve…
The Hard Questions to Ask When Planning Your Strategy
January 11, 2024
Many managers view strategy as a complex subject, but at its essence it boils down to three questions: Where are we now? Where do we want to go? What is a credible path…
Old Formulas Won’t Help You Solve Today’s Business Problems
October 24, 2023
Formulas may be road-tested approaches to business challenges, but formulas have flaws. What worked yesterday might not be applicable or even plausible today. There are three primary weaknesses to relying on formulas to…
Why the path of global wealth and growth matters for strategy
August 25, 2023
Recent global turbulence raises a question: Is the world shifting to a new economic regime for the long run? New McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) research and a recent McKinsey executive survey1 suggest that it might…
When to Ally and When to Acquire
July 9, 2023
Acquisitions and alliances are two pillars of growth strategy. But most businesses don’t treat the two as alternative mechanisms for attaining goals. Consequently, companies take over firms they should have collaborated with, and…
What I Learned about “Product Roadmap” from Stanford Product Management Accelerated
June 8, 2023
I’m recently taking the online Stanford program Product Management: Accelerated. One of the lectures I found very helpful for product managers is about how we derive a product roadmap from company-level strategies and product…
How to implement transformations for long-term impact
June 2, 2023
Many organizations embark on large-scale transformations, only to end with frustrated leaders and worse-than-expected long-term results. These efforts typically start with high aspirations and significant energy then lose an average of 42 percent of…
Reinventing Your Business Model
March 26, 2023
Why is it so difficult for established companies to pull off the new growth that business model innovation can bring? Here’s why: They don’t understand their current business model well enough to know…
In a data-led world, intuition still matters
November 22, 2022
The challenge in today’s world is not the lack of information but the judgment to use it,” they write. Data-based decision-making is unavoidable, but it comes with risks: “Data and numbers tend to…
What matters most? Six priorities for CEOs in turbulent times
November 18, 2022
What matters most? Six priorities for CEOs in turbulent times Executive Overview McKinsey’s article argues that CEOs operating in turbulent times need a dual mindset: tighten the belt and put on the hard…
Why strategy is like poker, not like golf
November 14, 2022
Strategy plays out in a world of probabilities, not certainties. That’s why you need to know your odds
Moving Upward in a Downturn
October 8, 2022
Downturns are a recurring fact of life in every industry. Sooner or later, demand for an industry’s products or services declines—often dragging prices down along the way—regardless of the state of the economy…
What Defines a Successful Organization?
October 3, 2022
The characteristics that help an organization succeed have changed over the past century. While a highly structured, top-down management style used to be companies’ preferred approach to organization, the internet has made this…
