Re-imagine the future
S+B reports onThe Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan. Read more
Strategy Execution
HBR is dusting off some old but useful articles in this collection Maximize Your Strategy. Read more
Building acquisition capability
Good discussion of M&A in strategy+business from Booz. Points out that making acquisitions is, like most other activities, something you get better at with practice, so skilled companies build real capability at doing it. Read more
Great piece on sustainability and business
Great video with Adam Werbach, author of Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto, shares an adaptation from his book and talks with the McKinsey Quarterly about trading in green fashion for more enduring business solutions. Practial and commercial.
Facts on MBA relevance
Strategy and decision-making simply get too little attention, according to latest solid evidence on this topic, in an academic paper too. How Relevant Is the MBA? [details below] took the simple but powerful approach of comparing the content-mix of 373 MBA programs with the managerial requirements specified in companies’ competency models. Over-weighted and under-weighted content were … Read more
More cyclicality – real-estate, insurance, shipping
I have blogged previously on this, and how we know the causes and some solutions. Here’s three new cases: Read more
Chief Performance Officer?
Nice simple observation from Tom Davenport on this idea, in particular asking if the new role might help end silo management. Read more