Strategy & Change
Why strategy stays on the slide, why change programs stall, and what the research says instead.
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Change
Your Detailed Change Plan Is the Most Dangerous-Looking Safe Thing You Own
In 1994 thirteen CEOs deep in major change programs were asked what made change work. The answer surprised the people asking.
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Organization
What Is Your Company Actually For?
Ask five people on your leadership team and you will get five answers. The Tavistock tradition calls the one that matters the primary task.
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Change
Why Your Change Initiative Stalled Before It Started
The cause is rarely execution. It sits in the architecture: the decisions made before launch that determined whether the change could ever work.
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Change
Why Most Change Efforts Fail, and What the Research Actually Says
There was energy in the room, people nodded, and by the end of Q1 the initiative had quietly died. The framework was rarely the problem.
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The Strategy Manual · No. 7
The Hedgehog Concept: Finding the One Thing Your Company Should Be Great At
Most leadership teams are foxes: many reasonable ideas, no single decision. The hedgehog, the BHAG and the North Star are how you choose one big thing on purpose.
