Learn Strategic Thinking from Napoleon
Biographers of Napoleon Bonaparte talk about his ability to size up a situation with a…
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Strategic Thinking in the Age of LinkedIn
LinkedIn founder and triple billionaire Reid Hoffman has two endearing mannerisms that reveal the way…
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Develop Your Strategic Intuition
The best decision-makers in chaotic “fog of war” conditions seem able to call on intuition…
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Moneyball and the Work of the Chief Strategy Officer
Moneyball and the Work of the Strategist Paul DePodesta was recently named the Chief Strategy…
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50 Tips and Tools for Effective Strategic Thinking
To engage in strategic thought, you must think and reflect on the big picture—on the…
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To Learn Strategy, Know History
When you are faced with the most important and strategic decision of your life, where…
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Emily Dickinson on Strategic Thinking
THE BRAIN is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one…
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5 Essential Books for Strategic Thinkers
Good Strategy Bad Strategy This fresh approach to strategic thinking begins with tales of battles…
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What is a Strategic Leader? A Person of Imagination
Recent attention to the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission remind us of their key finding:…
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Strategic Intuition
Biographers of Napoleon Bonaparte talk about his ability to size up a situation with a…
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The Borders Tale: What Goes Around Comes Around
If you are interested in the theories of business strategy covered in the blog post…
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The Rise and Fall of Strategy and Planning
Imagine that you could dump all the words of a million books from the past…
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Choosing the Words of Strategy
The strategist is one who is concerned about the future of his or her personal,…
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Strategy First… Then Structure
The historian Alfred Chandler of Harvard Business School wrote a seminal book published in 1977…
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Metaphors Be With You: The Strategist as Poet
Strategy-making begins with an idea. Without a guiding idea there can be no sense of…
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What is a Strategic Decision?
What is a strategic decision, and how is it different from an operational or tactical…