The Most Overlooked Leadership Skill
Strategy
9 Negotiation Tactics From Famous CEOs
CEO.com - April 24, 2013
Everything is negotiable. It’s one of those trade secrets every businessperson knows but won’t divulge. Because at the end of the day, those who bargain the best are the ones who come out on top. Learning to play the... Read »
How To Tell A Story With Data
HBR - April 24, 2013
Here are some journalistic strategies on telling a good story that apply to data visualizations as well. Read »
3 Ways To Banish Wishful Thinking
Inc - April 18, 2013
These three strategies will help ensure you're building a business based on reality, not wishful thinking. Read »
Six Simple Questions For Strategic Planning
CEO.com - March 19, 2013
Whether you are developing a corporate strategic plan or setting your department's strategy, there is a direct correlation between the simplicity of a plan and the chances of adhering to it.
Why stack the odds against... Read »
Forget The Mission Statement
Fast Company - March 19, 2013
What some of the most powerful CEOs in the country had to say about the questions that will keep any company on track. Read »
What J.C. Penney’s Ron Johnson Must Do Now
Fortune - March 5, 2013
Johnson's strategy must first be grounded in the simple fact that J.C. Penney customers are not the same as Apple's. Read »
4 Ways To Pull Ahead Of Your Competitors
Entrepreneur - February 25, 2013
Just like football, business is a game of inches where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing. Read »
What To Do When A Product Fails
HBR - February 25, 2013
A charismatic CEO with the willingness to accept a setback, move in a different direction, and persevere to achieve this new and difficult vision can succeed where most fail. Read »
3 Ways CEOs Screw Up Strategic Plans
CEO.com - February 25, 2013
At one time, business executives believed that strategic planning was the answer to all of their problems. The process that started in the 1950’s evolved through various strategic analyses including SWOT (Strengths,... Read »
7 Things Obama Taught Us About How To Win
Forbes - February 21, 2013
This is about how a legion of technologists and political advocates were able to help reelect a man whose last four years – let’s face it – was the political equivalent of Les Miserables. Read »
6 Strategy Lessons From A Chess Prodigy (Now CEO)
Fast Company - February 20, 2013
While everyone compares business to chess, only a few people can teach the game's most profound lessons. Here, Justin Moore, CEO of the cloud company Axcient, does just that. Read »
Amazon’s Brilliant Strategy To Give Away Money
Slate - February 11, 2013
Amazon Coins is a brilliant strategy to give free money away to Kindle Fire owners. Read »
Don’t Let Strategy Become Planning
HBR - February 8, 2013
To make strategy more interesting — and different from a budget — we need to break free of this obsession with planning. Strategy is not planning — it is the making of an integrated set of choices that collectively... Read »
P&G CEO: The Key To Powerful Business Strategy
Open Forum - February 6, 2013
Business strategy is something that eludes most people. But having the right strategy is often the difference between failure and success. Given the high rate of failure for small businesses, strategy is something that... Read »
Treat Everything As A Case Study
HBR - January 31, 2013
By adopting the "Everything is a case study" mindset and seeing the world through the Case Method third eye, you'll learn to filter out the disinformation that life throws at you and uncover startling insights. Read »
