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• 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)

• How to think big in strategy
• ‘Care’ as a big thinking theme for strategy
• Wise words on strategy from Professor Susan Lea

• Get a free copy of my new ‘Core Values’ book
• The Case for Strategy Scoping
• Decision rights for strategy
• Strategy quotes for 2023

• NEW BOOK: ‘Core Values’
• Spring cleaning ‘organisational debt’
• Rumelt’s ‘The Crux’

• What Douglas Engelbart has to tell us about strategy
• Linda Hill on managing innovation within strategy
• Adam Grant’s Acts of Leadership

• A new definition of strategy
• DICE instead of RACI
• Strategic Compression

• Leading & lagging indicators as strategy metrics
• Google’s ‘Simplicity Sprint’
• Introducing ‘scruffy strategy’

• Separating Strategy from Strategic Planning
• Risk & innovation
• Does your strategy travel?
• Minecraft’s values

• Strategy as Design Thinking
• Connecting strategy and culture
• A broad view of strategy

• 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

• New: The Triple Diamond Model of strategy
• Ikigai and the deficiencies of strategy
• Strategy books you might enjoy

• Strategy KPIs: avoiding the tyranny of measurement
• Lessons for strategy from Pixar’s 22 rules for storytelling
• Further lessons on strategy from the Beatles

• 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 Healthcheck
• The perils of hedging strategy
• Loss aversion
• Net Promoter Score 3.0
• Strategic innovation lessons from LEGO

• 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

• 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

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