Strategy Distilled: I Hear the Bass Drum (Again)

A few years ago a book came out with a napkin on the cover and the promise of teaching its reader the power of visual thinking.   I was inte...

Why Didn't I Get Promoted?

About a year ago I wrote about (what I’ll call) one leg of the B ermuda Triangle of Managing People , the so-called “Game 3 employee. ” I’...

Before You Reorganize. . .

Here are the ways a CEO can get sacked. . . Terrible strategy with good execution. Think Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, which made terrific hi-carb...

The Man of Steel Does Scenario Planning

In 1991 Peter Schwartz, the President of Global Business Network, published The Art of the Long View , a description of, and recipe for, sce...

Diagnosing the Business

In the February 2008 edition of the Harvard Business Review , Mark Gottfredson, Steve Schaubert, and Hernan Saenz have summarized their tech...

An Hour of Hard Thinking: David Allen's Getting Things Done

David Allen wrote Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity in 2001, and Ready for Anything in 2003. Together, they have ins...