How to grow a strategic culture

Creating An Environment For Strategic Thinkers What do you look for in a new hire? Immediately no doubt all the cliches come to mind.  Hardworking, team player, problem solver, etc.  Cliches are quite helpful like that: by on the tip of our tongue, they guide us effortlessly to good solid solutions.  Solutions that have been […]

How to make eco-strategies work

Why Eco-Strategies Don’t Work And How To Change That I spend a lot of time here talking against herd behaviour; against the reflexive urge, we all have to copy and to cluster – particularly in business. It should be acknowledged, however, that not all herd behaviour is necessarily illogical or counterproductive.  We are all swimming […]

Sugar, sex, and the supernormal

The Dangers Of Normalised Consumer Addictions Following my piece a few months back on the phenomenon of concentration – the great invisible force shaping pretty much everything right now – I wanted to do another similar piece on a different macro-trend. The purpose of such pieces, which of course aren’t strategy how-to guides like some […]

The danger of knowing too much

How Critical Thinking Can Lead Us Astray Consider the following paradox: The more news you consume, the more ignorant you may become. How can this be true?  After all, clearly the person who reads the paper regularly, watches a 24 hour news channel, devours current affairs podcasts, and spends hours on Twitter will end up […]

Strategy can never be “scientific”

Strategy is a discipline that is used to make decisions under conditions of uncertainty. When you’re facing a task that doesn’t have a solution that you know will work at the outset. There is no “strategy” to fixing a muffler, or flying a jet, or tying pigtails; there is just a method. Strategy is reserved […]