How many firms are currently failing dismally to deliver cash-flow growth because of an obsession with cost-cutting ? The depressing focus on cost ratios features yet again in […]
Growth through focus
I’ve posted before on how often firms over-expand and over-extend themselves*. Growth through Focus in strategy+business warns of the same danger, and explains how “companies should follow a […]
Technology wins …. for now
You may have noticed that I have had problems with the blog recently – as with many of these things one starts with high optimism but eventually a […]
Analysts keep getting it wrong
Equity Analysts: Still Too Bullish in McKQ makes depressing, if unsurprising reading. Analysts continue a decades-long tendency to forecast nearly double the profit growth that actually follows, and […]
Mintzberg’s destruction of Strategy
Mintzberg’s keynote role at a conference on the MBA is a worry, but his latest foray into strategy is too serious to let pass. In Management by Reflection in […]