Now here’s a thing – Bet you didn’t know that there are ‘Chief Strategy Officers’ out there [we used to call them Strategy Directors in UK corporations]! McK…

I am reminded of what may be one of the most dangerous articles on competitive strategy I ever read. ‘Hardball: Five Killer Strategies for Trouncing the Competition.’, Stalk…

I am amazed how little companies seem to know about competitors, and how they lack any specific plans for dealing with specific rivals – most just drag on,…

I see Wrigley, of chewing-gum and mints fame, accepted a $23 billion takeover from Mars, which includes Snickers, M&M’s and Uncle Ben’s rice among its brands, making it…

Good to see Strategy+Business looking at ROI on marketing in a grown-up way. The proliferation of digital media and the fragmentation of audiences have rendered audience exposure, the…

I see you can go to Harvard Business School and learn about ‘Driving Corporate Performance – Aligning Scorecards, Systems, and Strategy’ [July 13 – 18, 2008]. I come across…

We keep being told that investors value growth in future earnings over short term profits [yes, early], so an article on Corporate Health in an Earnings-Driven Environment is…

I’ve got so much on for the foreseeable future with responding to interest in the book that sounding off about strategy issues generally has fallen off my radar-screen…

I see middle managers are getting hit yet again, this time in McKinsey Quarterly as ‘innovation blockers‘. It seems to be forgotten that middle managers have the additional…

A nice word of caution from strategy+business magazine about looking for magic strategy answers by peering into the ways of superstars. In The Google Enigma, they point out…