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.
Achieve Meeting Goals. Try This One Thing For Your Next Meeting.
Idea in Brief The best way to maintain focus, promote deep thinking and achieve meeting goals is to have absolute clarity on the One Thing you want to accomplish. Require this One Thing in each meeting invitation title to improve the outcome and experience of each...
Today’s the Perfect Day to KonMari Your Calendar
Idea in Brief Just like a closet that's unruly and out of control, our work calendars have become so stuffed full of meetings and commitments it's impossible to find time to do the work that matters most to us. Be your fiercest time guardian and try these techniques...
You Waste 30% of Your Time in Status Meetings. Try This Instead.
Idea in Brief The time, energy, and opportunity costs squandered on weekly status updates are unconscionable, and we must reshape this insidious corporate staple into a driver for solving the most pressing challenges, fueling engagement, and strengthening connections....
Creating New Habits? Stack the Odds in Your Favor
Let's be real. It's easy to come up with the goals we want to achieve to become the best version of ourselves. The hard part — and I mean incredibly hard part — is mastering the habits required to attain those goals. So, if you could learn a simple...
If You Want to Change Your Habits, Change Who You Think You Are
At the core of all of our behaviors lie the beliefs we have about ourselves. To create a sustainable habit, we must decide whom we want to be and act consistently like that person until we convince ourselves that is whom we have become. The first post of my three-part...
Struggling with Your New Year’s Goals? Try These Atomic Habits
Why is it that 80% of us give up on our New Year's goals by the first week in February? The problem isn't us, it's the way we approach these goals. The problem with how we approach our big goals is that we focus on the goal itself rather than the small, daily habits...