Strategic thinking for leadership teams.
25 years helping leadership teams build and execute strategy. Monthly writing on execution, capability, and the discipline that closes the gap between the strategic plan and what actually happens in the field.
11 Lessons from 15 Years in Business: What I Wish I'd Known Sooner
What 15 years of building a business actually teaches you — including the parts no framework prepares you for.
Systems Over Goals: How Management Systems Are the Backbone of Strategy Execution
Why the 12 management systems underneath your strategy matter more than the goals sitting on top of them.
When Waiting Becomes the Riskiest Move: A New Framework for Leading Through Uncertainty
The practical framework for creating momentum when the future isn't clear enough to plan around.
The Strategic Compound Interest That Multiplies Your Business Results
How daily strategic discipline compounds into results that look impossible from the outside.
Why Meeting to Share Information is Lazy
Idea in Brief Meeting to share information is a terrible waste of precious time that most of us can't afford to lose. Be intentional about your meetings by sharing essential information in written form in advance and focus your meeting energy on using that information...
Why Time Chunking Your Calendar Really Works
Idea in Brief The cognitive costs we incur switching back and forth from deep work and tactical activities are far too significant to bear. To avoid these costs, we have to manage our schedules with intention. Time chunking is a powerful tool to help us minimize these...
Are You a Bricklayer?
The parable of the bricklayer goes something like this: Three bricklayers are asked, “What are you doing?” The first says, “I am laying bricks.” The second says, “I am building a church.” And the third says, “I am building the...
You are the Contagion, How You Show Up is Everything
You are contagious. What culture are you creating with the energy, intention, and presence you bring to the party? How you show up matters. We often abdicate the responsibility of organizational culture to the highest levels of leadership, perhaps thinking it rests...
Create Purpose At Work (Even If Your Job Stinks)
Is your job terrible? Is it tolerable, but you’re always looking for a better opportunity? Or perhaps you love your job. Lucky you! It doesn’t matter. Whatever the relationship you have with your work right now, I can help you reframe your work in a way...
The Year of Opening Boxes
So maybe it’s the egg nog or just the promise of the New Year, but I seem to find inspiration in so many things this time of year. This week, I was inspired by this unopened box. This box contains the green screen I had ordered for the strategy training series...