Disruptive Strategy

There are different ways to deliver consulting work or to deliver value as a service. Some of those ways could look like any one of…

In our work with executives of some of the best-run teams, one of the key difficulties they face is in gaining authentic alignment toward a…

We all faced it, and some did it really well. Recently, the CEOs of Ecolab, VF Corporation, and Nasdaq came together to confab about how…

Why do so many organizations fail to deliver on the opportunities that have been thoughtfully identified in their strategic plans? Most often it is a…

Some companies always just seem to win. However, organizations that seem to “think” differently share a few common traits: 1. They go beyond what is predictable…

CEOs and C-level executives who set out to bring lasting change to their organizations have thought about this one for a long time, and for…

In the first part of this series, I asserted that strategic horizons are not uncovered by looking at your current business and trying to figure out…

Peloton Interactive, the maker of the world’s best-known exercise bike, has seen its stock price nearly triple in 2020, up 196% year to date (at…

For those of you who are not familiar with the name Dick Fosbury, you may recognize the maneuver—a la strategy innovation—that made him famous: the Fosbury Flop.…

The president of a fast-growing division of a Fortune 100 technology company with an imperative to diversify and open up new and unconventional thinking established…

Following its first acquisition, a pharmaceutical organization needed to integrate the purchased company. The acquisition had the potential to serve as a secondary manufacturing site…

IBM once made grocery scales and cheese slicers. Nokia made paper products. Both are now known for something entirely different, building the case for strategy…