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4. Know your users

The “most underrated skill in management is … clearly articulating the problem you seek to solve before jumping into action.”* However, many managers choose ‘solutions’ first and then look for the problems this will fix: “We’re launching a cultural/digital/agile transformation” they announce “to address our talent/technology/innovation gap”. Managers do this…

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4. Know your users
4. Know your users

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Sep 14

3. Understand what is being considered

Most people have heard of the ‘butterfly effect’ — a butterfly flaps its wings in Rio de Janeiro and a tornado hits Chicago as small changes can have large effects elsewhere. This is the popular version. …

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3. Understand what is being considered
3. Understand what is being considered

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Sep 12

2. Challenge Assumptions

No matter how often the business media likes to portray some leaders as all-seeing, all-knowing strategic geniuses modern business is too complex for any single leader to be on top of everything. To truly lead their organisations modern leaders must free themselves from the impossible burden of thinking they have…

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2. Challenge Assumptions
2. Challenge Assumptions

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Sep 7

1. Use a Common Language

Everyone hates long wasteful meetings, yet we have so many of them. Are meetings poor because people organising them don’t create good enough agendas? Is it because people attending don’t come prepared? Or is it because people tend to go off on tangents and sabotage the meeting? The answer as…

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1. Use a Common Language
1. Use a Common Language

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Sep 5

40 Principles for Better Organisations

Mao Zedong was one of the greatest military commanders in history, though he downplayed his own achievements. …

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40 Principles for Better Organisations
40 Principles for Better Organisations

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Mar 17

Dare To Give Up Control!

Leaders are judged on delivering success. The traditional playbook has been to make the organisation run like a well-oiled, efficient machine — producing ever-greater outputs with ever-minimal inputs. To make the machine efficient a monster, feeding on an insatiable diet of measurement and control, is unleashed.[⁠1]​⁠ …

Strategy

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Dare To Give Up Control!
Dare To Give Up Control!
Strategy

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Mar 13

Strategy Playbook for Overcoming Sanctions — the Huawei Ban

Mission In May 2019[⁠1] the United States government designated Huawei — the telecommunications giant — a risk to national security and restricted the Chinese company from doing business in the U.S. What became known as the ‘Huawei Ban’ ban was later extended to restrict anyone, anywhere from selling Huawei anything that…

Huawei

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Strategy Playbook for Overcoming Sanctions — the Huawei Ban
Strategy Playbook for Overcoming Sanctions — the Huawei Ban
Huawei

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Feb 18

“People, ideas, technology — In that order!”

When, in 2016, AlphaGo — an AI system from DeepMind (a Google-owned company) — beat the world champion of Go (or weiqi, a strategy board game as popular in the East as chess is in the West) it sent shock-waves throughout Asia. This ‘sputnik’ moment triggered a tidal wave of…

Technology

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“People, ideas, technology — In that order!”
“People, ideas, technology — In that order!”
Technology

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Feb 1

Strategic Options for Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0

Mission In October 2022, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk made headlines when he acquired Twitter for $44 billion. Since then, speculation has been rampant about his intentions for the social media platform. In a recent tweet, Musk provided some insight, stating his aim to provide “Trust as a Service” (TaaS):⁠1 We’re going…

Twitter

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Strategic Options for Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0
Strategic Options for Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0
Twitter

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Oct 3, 2022

Hierarchy of Strategic Thinking

Business people bandy about words like strategy, innovation and culture all the time, but if you ask people to define what these words mean you’ll get very different answers. So when people repeat well-known phrases such as “culture eats strategy for breakfast” what they’re saying is that something (they can’t…

Strategy

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Hierarchy of Strategic Thinking
Hierarchy of Strategic Thinking
Strategy

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