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Reviving a Troubled Division and a Troubled Career

Reviving a Troubled Division and a Troubled Career Finally, I want to talk about reviving a troubled division and troubled career. I want to celebrate some of our executive coaching clients. I have a

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Reviving a Troubled Division and a Troubled Career Finally, I want to talk about reviving a troubled

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The Single Biggest Strategy Shift for the Next Few Decades

The Single Biggest Strategy Shift for the Next Few Decades This is by far the biggest story of the week, and I’m very surprised that it hasn’t received more attention because it has incredible imp

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The Single Biggest Strategy Shift for the Next Few Decades This is by far the biggest story of the w

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The New Arms Race

The New Arms Race The next big trend we’re reading about is how Korean tech companies like Samsung are working overtime to protect their corporate secrets as Asian rivals try to poach their empl

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The New Arms Race The next big trend we’re reading about is how Korean tech companies like Sam

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Strategic Flexibility Is a Myth

Strategic Flexibility Is a Myth The first theme is what I call “strategic flexibility is a myth.” In business—and for anything in life—you need to go all in. COVID-19 is obviously a big topic

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Strategic Flexibility Is a Myth The first theme is what I call “strategic flexibility is a myth.�

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Don’t Hold Yourself Back

Don’t Hold Yourself Back My final note is based on many of the discussions I have with clients in our executive coaching programs. We train clients from all over the world. Some have no business

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Don’t Hold Yourself Back My final note is based on many of the discussions I have with clients

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Are Coal, Oil and Gas Dead?

Are Coal, Oil and Gas Dead? Almost any pundit or forecaster will tell you that oil, coal and gas are dead. But the reality is that they’re probably not dead, and they’re probably far from

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Are Coal, Oil and Gas Dead? Almost any pundit or forecaster will tell you that oil, coal and gas are

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Defense Is Not a Strategy

Defense Is Not a Strategy The next big story we’re reading about is linked to China. This is themed defense is not a strategy. A recent decision was made by Panasonic to exit certain parts of the re

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Defense Is Not a Strategy The next big story we’re reading about is linked to China. This is theme

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The Rise of Reddit Traders

The Rise of Reddit Traders The other big topic that everyone’s talking about is the rise of Reddit traders. Through a sequence of collective actions, they forced a number of hedge funds—a larg

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The Rise of Reddit Traders The other big topic that everyone’s talking about is the rise of Re

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Corporate Strategy Is About Trends

Corporate Strategy Is About Trends With the rise of COVID, we’ve seen huge trends take over, galvanize and basically capture the entire world within a short period of time. Corporate strategy is

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Corporate Strategy Is About Trends With the rise of COVID, we’ve seen huge trends take over, g

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How to Create a Career Strategy for an Executive

How to Create a Career Strategy for an Executive I’m going to leave you with some thoughts on developing a career strategy for an executive. Most of our clients are fairly successful and senior,

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How to Create a Career Strategy for an Executive I’m going to leave you with some thoughts on

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Analyzing the Competition Is Hard

Analyzing the Competition Is Hard Competition is hard to understand because nobody knows what their competitors are thinking. Competitors usually send signals into the market to mislead their peers.

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Analyzing the Competition Is Hard Competition is hard to understand because nobody knows what their

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Delicate Balance Needed in a Turnaround

Delicate Balance Needed in a Turnaround There are many interesting pieces about companies facing turnaround problems—from banks like Wells Fargo, to large retailers, to food and beverage companies�

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Delicate Balance Needed in a Turnaround There are many interesting pieces about companies facing tur

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Synergy Is Very Hard to Achieve

Synergy Is Very Hard to Achieve Sony, a large Japanese entertainment and electronics company, for many years struggled to get synergy across its various arms. It has video game consoles, a huge music

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Synergy Is Very Hard to Achieve Sony, a large Japanese entertainment and electronics company, for ma

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What Is a Digital & IT Strategy?

What Is a Digital & IT Strategy? Many news articles have raised the issues of getting an IT strategy to work. The Wall Street Journal talked about Volkswagen Group’s difficulties in putting to

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What Is a Digital & IT Strategy? Many news articles have raised the issues of getting an IT stra

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Promising Careers Are Also a Venus Flytrap

Promising Careers Are Also a Venus Flytrap I want to wrap up today’s Monday Morning 8 a.m. by talking about a big theme I see with executive coaching clients. I call this theme: “Promising car

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Promising Careers Are Also a Venus Flytrap I want to wrap up today’s Monday Morning 8 a.m. by

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Amazon and Knowing That One Thing That Drives Your Strategy

Amazon and Knowing That One Thing That Drives Your Strategy The next big theme I want to talk about is a little bit close to me because I used to be a corporate strategy senior partner, is what I cal

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Amazon and Knowing That One Thing That Drives Your Strategy The next big theme I want to talk about

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Shared Values vs. Paid Friends

Shared Values vs. Paid Friends The third theme is an interesting one because it comes from an executive coaching client in Australia who is the chief operating officer for a very large services compan

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Shared Values vs. Paid Friends The third theme is an interesting one because it comes from an execut

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Apple’s Car and What It Means for Manufacturing

Apple’s Car and What It Means for Manufacturing Apple Car is about to enter the auto market, and it’s all over the news. I mentioned this earlier about what it means for decoupling and so on, but

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Apple’s Car and What It Means for Manufacturing Apple Car is about to enter the auto market, and i

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Value Chain Migration Death March

Value Chain Migration Death March We’re going to start with what I call the value chain migration death march. I’m referring to the universal tendency across every company, anywhere in the world,

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Value Chain Migration Death March We’re going to start with what I call the value chain migration

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How to become a better leader

How to become a better leader A lot of clients ask us about how to become a better leader. Leadership is very confusing, nebulous and grainy. People always tell me they want to be a motivational leade

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How to become a better leader A lot of clients ask us about how to become a better leader. Leadershi

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China’s Belt and Road Strategy

China’s Belt and Road Strategy The final big topic is China’s Belt and Road Strategy, also known as the Silk Road Initiative. If China is setting up a network of interconnected sites to seamle

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China’s Belt and Road Strategy The final big topic is China’s Belt and Road Strategy, also k

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From Start-up to Operational Efficiency

From Start-up to Operational Efficiency The combination of Fiat, Chrysler and Peugeot group is creating a new holding company which is looking to merge the assets all these M&A bankers and M&A

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From Start-up to Operational Efficiency The combination of Fiat, Chrysler and Peugeot group is creat

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Catching the Next Big Strategy Wave

Catching the Next Big Strategy Wave We’re going to stay in the telco sector for now. There have been on-again, off-again stories about how the New York Stock Exchange wanted to delist the three larg

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Catching the Next Big Strategy Wave We’re going to stay in the telco sector for now. There have be

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Nuances of a Private Equity Strategy

Nuances of a Private Equity Strategy Private equity and various forms of investment management have become the en vogue form of financing. Twenty years ago, it was investment banking, but now private

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Nuances of a Private Equity Strategy Private equity and various forms of investment management have

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Blog

Analysis and insights alone don’t make a leader.

Leaders implement their ideas and bank the benefits. Leaders get results.

Reviving a Troubled Division and a Troubled Career

Reviving a Troubled Division and a Troubled Career Finally, I want to talk about reviving a troubled division and troubled career. I want to celebrate some of our executive coaching clients. I have a

Reviving a Troubled Division and a Troubled Career Finally, I want to talk about reviving a troubled

The Single Biggest Strategy Shift for the Next Few Decades

The Single Biggest Strategy Shift for the Next Few Decades This is by far the biggest story of the week, and I’m very surprised that it hasn’t received more attention because it has incredible imp

The Single Biggest Strategy Shift for the Next Few Decades This is by far the biggest story of the w

The New Arms Race

The New Arms Race The next big trend we’re reading about is how Korean tech companies like Samsung are working overtime to protect their corporate secrets as Asian rivals try to poach their empl

The New Arms Race The next big trend we’re reading about is how Korean tech companies like Sam

Strategic Flexibility Is a Myth

Strategic Flexibility Is a Myth The first theme is what I call “strategic flexibility is a myth.” In business—and for anything in life—you need to go all in. COVID-19 is obviously a big topic

Strategic Flexibility Is a Myth The first theme is what I call “strategic flexibility is a myth.�

Don’t Hold Yourself Back

Don’t Hold Yourself Back My final note is based on many of the discussions I have with clients in our executive coaching programs. We train clients from all over the world. Some have no business

Don’t Hold Yourself Back My final note is based on many of the discussions I have with clients

Are Coal, Oil and Gas Dead?

Are Coal, Oil and Gas Dead? Almost any pundit or forecaster will tell you that oil, coal and gas are dead. But the reality is that they’re probably not dead, and they’re probably far from

Are Coal, Oil and Gas Dead? Almost any pundit or forecaster will tell you that oil, coal and gas are

Defense Is Not a Strategy

Defense Is Not a Strategy The next big story we’re reading about is linked to China. This is themed defense is not a strategy. A recent decision was made by Panasonic to exit certain parts of the re

Defense Is Not a Strategy The next big story we’re reading about is linked to China. This is theme

The Rise of Reddit Traders

The Rise of Reddit Traders The other big topic that everyone’s talking about is the rise of Reddit traders. Through a sequence of collective actions, they forced a number of hedge funds—a larg

The Rise of Reddit Traders The other big topic that everyone’s talking about is the rise of Re

Corporate Strategy Is About Trends

Corporate Strategy Is About Trends With the rise of COVID, we’ve seen huge trends take over, galvanize and basically capture the entire world within a short period of time. Corporate strategy is

Corporate Strategy Is About Trends With the rise of COVID, we’ve seen huge trends take over, g

How to Create a Career Strategy for an Executive

How to Create a Career Strategy for an Executive I’m going to leave you with some thoughts on developing a career strategy for an executive. Most of our clients are fairly successful and senior,

How to Create a Career Strategy for an Executive I’m going to leave you with some thoughts on

Analyzing the Competition Is Hard

Analyzing the Competition Is Hard Competition is hard to understand because nobody knows what their competitors are thinking. Competitors usually send signals into the market to mislead their peers.

Analyzing the Competition Is Hard Competition is hard to understand because nobody knows what their

Delicate Balance Needed in a Turnaround

Delicate Balance Needed in a Turnaround There are many interesting pieces about companies facing turnaround problems—from banks like Wells Fargo, to large retailers, to food and beverage companies�

Delicate Balance Needed in a Turnaround There are many interesting pieces about companies facing tur

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Synergy Is Very Hard to Achieve

Synergy Is Very Hard to Achieve Sony, a large Japanese entertainment and electronics company, for many years struggled to get synergy across its various arms. It has video game consoles, a huge music

Synergy Is Very Hard to Achieve Sony, a large Japanese entertainment and electronics company, for ma

What Is a Digital & IT Strategy?

What Is a Digital & IT Strategy? Many news articles have raised the issues of getting an IT strategy to work. The Wall Street Journal talked about Volkswagen Group’s difficulties in putting to

What Is a Digital & IT Strategy? Many news articles have raised the issues of getting an IT stra

Promising Careers Are Also a Venus Flytrap

Promising Careers Are Also a Venus Flytrap I want to wrap up today’s Monday Morning 8 a.m. by talking about a big theme I see with executive coaching clients. I call this theme: “Promising car

Promising Careers Are Also a Venus Flytrap I want to wrap up today’s Monday Morning 8 a.m. by

Amazon and Knowing That One Thing That Drives Your Strategy

Amazon and Knowing That One Thing That Drives Your Strategy The next big theme I want to talk about is a little bit close to me because I used to be a corporate strategy senior partner, is what I cal

Amazon and Knowing That One Thing That Drives Your Strategy The next big theme I want to talk about

Shared Values vs. Paid Friends

Shared Values vs. Paid Friends The third theme is an interesting one because it comes from an executive coaching client in Australia who is the chief operating officer for a very large services compan

Shared Values vs. Paid Friends The third theme is an interesting one because it comes from an execut

Apple’s Car and What It Means for Manufacturing

Apple’s Car and What It Means for Manufacturing Apple Car is about to enter the auto market, and it’s all over the news. I mentioned this earlier about what it means for decoupling and so on, but

Apple’s Car and What It Means for Manufacturing Apple Car is about to enter the auto market, and i

Value Chain Migration Death March

Value Chain Migration Death March We’re going to start with what I call the value chain migration death march. I’m referring to the universal tendency across every company, anywhere in the world,

Value Chain Migration Death March We’re going to start with what I call the value chain migration

How to become a better leader

How to become a better leader A lot of clients ask us about how to become a better leader. Leadership is very confusing, nebulous and grainy. People always tell me they want to be a motivational leade

How to become a better leader A lot of clients ask us about how to become a better leader. Leadershi

China’s Belt and Road Strategy

China’s Belt and Road Strategy The final big topic is China’s Belt and Road Strategy, also known as the Silk Road Initiative. If China is setting up a network of interconnected sites to seamle

China’s Belt and Road Strategy The final big topic is China’s Belt and Road Strategy, also k

From Start-up to Operational Efficiency

From Start-up to Operational Efficiency The combination of Fiat, Chrysler and Peugeot group is creating a new holding company which is looking to merge the assets all these M&A bankers and M&A

From Start-up to Operational Efficiency The combination of Fiat, Chrysler and Peugeot group is creat

Catching the Next Big Strategy Wave

Catching the Next Big Strategy Wave We’re going to stay in the telco sector for now. There have been on-again, off-again stories about how the New York Stock Exchange wanted to delist the three larg

Catching the Next Big Strategy Wave We’re going to stay in the telco sector for now. There have be

Nuances of a Private Equity Strategy

Nuances of a Private Equity Strategy Private equity and various forms of investment management have become the en vogue form of financing. Twenty years ago, it was investment banking, but now private

Nuances of a Private Equity Strategy Private equity and various forms of investment management have

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