December 2020
What’s wrong with our ethics?
Wrong is wrong, even if everyone does it, even if nobody dares speak against it.
Right is right, even if no one is doing it, even if nobody dares support it, even if naysayers say [...]
Managing by Appreciative Inquiry
When we focus to correct an organization for deficiencies, what we are trying to do is to make that organization better. But better in relation to what? In relation to what it was in [...]
September 2020
A two-stage framework for crafting strategy
When crafting a business strategy, don’t focus on competitors only.
Business Strategy aims to achieve and maintain a favourable posture for the company by influencing the equilibrium between the elements that shape the competing market [...]
July 2020
Strategy in verse
The 3rd of our recent articles on strategy:
Strategy
Is so many things
In so many different ways
That makes it hard
To tell what strategy is
But when we see it done
We can tell
A strategy was there!
What a creature
Strategy [...]
What is Strategy?
Strategy is how to win! Win what? a battle or the war?
How to win a battle, in business markets, is well written about and is for most clear. Less clear and less dealt with, [...]
June 2020
Is Strategy a Wrong Concept for many Businesses and ‘Fit’ a better concept?
If the prime aim of businesses were to beat competitors, the word strategy and its concept would have been very appropriate. But is it? Is a business declared prime goal to beat competitors or [...]