"Strategic Planning Process" are three of the dirtiest words in corporate linguistics. Managers describe the annual planning process as tedious, frustrating, distracting make-work – and that’s...

Many (actually most) CEOs complain that their organizations are not innovative enough. They point to boats that were missed and competitors that blind-sided them. And they are usually ...

Startups must keep a lot of balls in the air. They start life with a vision, an intuitive sense of a market/technology gap, the skills and networks of the founding team, and a lot of...

Our ancestors preferred bows and arrows to email, but their goals were basically the same: hunt down nutritious creatures in order to feed the clan. And the bigger the ...

Ecclesiastes tells us there is nothing new under the sun. While he wasn’t really talking about technology business, the fact is that strategic patterns do ...