Does Culture Eat Strategy For Breakfast?
A strategy is only as good as the capability to execute it. A good strategy can be consumed by culture. Culture is like the wind – invisible, but you can…
What Does It Mean To Be Strategic?
The equinox signals a change in season, and recent events seem to indicate a new era is dawning. With transition comes reflection on what matters to me, whether where I…
The Power of a Personal Strategy Map
“Your husband has probably got not much more than a month to live.” Our home was already packed up, and on a container ship, this was the prognosis a week…
Mind the Value Gap
In the London Underground there is a warning to be careful while stepping between platform and train. What is the Value Gap? In strategic planning we describe the difference between…
Hearts in the Ice (HITI)
3 years ago I joined a select group of Hearts in the Ice collaborators on the MS Nordstjernen to take two extraordinary polar explorers to a small wooden hut in the frozen…
Homeward Bound
The last couple of weeks have been full of early morning and late night sessions that come with being faculty for a global leadership programme. My recent LinkedIn anniversary alerted…