A Kiteboarder’s Guide to Embracing Business Uncertainty
Businesses that are willing to take on more risk and operate in uncertain environments can win a competitive advantage over those that are not.
Upstarts Kick-Start the Pace of Innovation at UPS
What does a 110-year-old company do to increase the rate of innovation from less than one new business per year to 50? The answer, says David Lee, Vice President of Innovation and New Ventures [...]
Activist investors are smart – what can we learn from them?
Activist investors were busy in 2017. General Electric, AIG, Arconic, CSX, Pandora, and Buffalo Wild Wings are among the companies whose CEOs resigned under pressure from activist investors. [...]
Get Inside Your Competitor’s Head, and Win
No matter what business you’re in, and whether the business outlook is bleak or robust, one thing is certain: the success or failure of your strategy hinges on what your competitors choose to [...]
Change the Game
I recently worked with a large, successful company whose growth had slowed. They needed new ideas—and not just any ideas, but big ideas: new growth trajectories that would generate at least a [...]
What Does Fearless Growth Look Like?
To be able to respond quickly and intelligently to the fast pace of change in the world, we need all levels and functions in our businesses to be creative and responsive. We need speed. Do you [...]
Think Like an Explorer
When I was sixteen, I went on a 2-week horseback trip in the Bighorn mountains of Wyoming. Each morning, we were given the coordinates of the location where we would camp that night, then turned [...]
Six Obstacles That Stop Agility In Its Tracks
Are you struggling to make your company more agile? In my work with organizations in virtually every industry, I find that business agility – the ability to spot and capitalize on new [...]
Want to predict the future? Put your customers to work
When you want to gain insight into emerging customer needs and behaviors, the first solution you might think of is market research. But research can be costly, and it can take weeks to implement [...]
