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Strategy Distilled August 2023
- Strategy as a model of causation
- Loretta Ross’s ‘calling-in’ framework
- ChatGPT: When do hallucinations turn into deceit?
- Strategy Distilled – free pdf compilation
Strategy Distilled July 2023
- Strategy flywheels and strategic synergy
- Glossary of company values
- Design Fiction
- Strategy Distilled – free pdf compilation
Strategy Distilled June 2023
- The difference between core values and ‘what we care about’
- John Cutler’s ‘Strategy = Insights^Conviction’
- Two years of Strategy Distilled – free 88-page pdf compilation
Strategy Distilled May 2023
- Justifying stakeholder consultation in strategy development
- Just how JEDI are you? How to embed Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in your ways of working (from The Ready)
Strategy Distilled April 2023
- How to think big in strategy
- ‘Care’ as a big thinking theme for strategy
- Wise words on strategy from Professor Susan Lea
Strategy Distilled March 2023
- How strategy actually works
- What is strategy?
- Strategy vs business-as-usual
- What do you move on to, after the strategy is written?
- Participatory governance
Strategy Distilled February 2023
- Get a free copy of my new ‘Core Values’ book
- The Case for Strategy Scoping
- Decision rights for strategy
- Strategy quotes for 2023
Strategy Distilled January 2023
- NEW BOOK: ‘Core Values’
- Spring cleaning ‘organisational debt’
- Rumelt’s ‘The Crux’
Strategy Distilled December 2022
Why you should aim to write a minimus opus rather than a magnum opus.
Strategy Distilled November 2022
- What Douglas Engelbart has to tell us about strategy
- Linda Hill on managing innovation within strategy
- Adam Grant’s Acts of Leadership
Strategy Distilled October 2022
- A new definition of strategy
- DICE instead of RACI
- Strategic Compression
Strategy Distilled September 2022
- The role of values in strategy and the rise of people strategies
- If you want to change culture, change the language you use
- Enablers of strategic autonomy
Strategy Distilled August 2022
- Leading & lagging indicators as strategy metrics
- Google’s ‘Simplicity Sprint’
- Introducing ‘scruffy strategy’
Strategy Distilled July 2022
- Separating Strategy from Strategic Planning
- Risk & innovation
- Does your strategy travel?
- Minecraft’s values
Strategy Distilled June 2022
- Boosting collaborative skills for strategy
- Who knows about your strategy?
- Problem-solving for strategy
Strategy Distilled May 2022
- Strategy as Design Thinking
- Connecting strategy and culture
- A broad view of strategy
Strategy Distilled April 2022
- Strategy governance from the boardroom to front-line teams
- Engaging middle managers in strategy
- Chain of beliefs in strategy
- Tesler’s Law of the Conservation of Complexity
- Chesterton’s Fence
Strategy Distilled March 2022
- Strategy destination vs strategy aspiration
- 12 strategy FAQs
- One thing every strategist needs to accept
- Gaining control in strategy
- Strategic resilience
Strategy Distilled February 2022
- New: The Triple Diamond Model of strategy
- Ikigai and the deficiencies of strategy
- Strategy books you might enjoy
Strategy Distilled January 2022
- Strategy KPIs: avoiding the tyranny of measurement
- Lessons for strategy from Pixar’s 22 rules for storytelling
- Further lessons on strategy from the Beatles
Strategy Distilled December 2021
- A look back at 6 months of Strategy Distilled
- Masters in Digital Marketing
- Five free copies of The Strategy Manual to give away
Strategy Distilled November 2021
- Connecting values with strategy
- Social proof
- The ‘H’ model of strategy adoption
- 5 types of people you’ll meet when implementing change
- In praise of Post-it notes
Strategy Distilled October 2021
- Strategy Healthcheck
- The perils of hedging strategy
- Loss aversion
- Net Promoter Score 3.0
- Strategic innovation lessons from LEGO
Strategy Distilled September 2021
- The Strategy Manual – one year on
- The Strategy Lifecycle Model
- Antifragility
- Strategy and the eigenquestion
- The ‘hot streak’ model of innovation
- Strategy and culture
Strategy Distilled August 2021
- Illusory superiority – a lesson from behavioural economics
- The most important thing I learned this month – ‘process accountability’
- How quantity trumps quality
- What kind of strategist are you?
- The six roles required for strategy development
Strategy Distilled July 2021
- Framing: a lesson from behavioural economic
- Using framing as a model to inject creativity into strategy development
- The case for strategy workshops
- The synergy of Virgin Atlantic’s ‘double helix’ strategy
- Digital avoidance strategy
- The front-line paradox
Strategy Distilled June 2021
- Five strategy lessons from Amazon that we can all learn from
- The VACU model for strategic risk assessment
- What is Confirmation Bias and why is it important in strategy work?
- Leadership lessons from Buurtzorg.
- How digital should your strategy be?
- Innovation environments must be safe-to-fail
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