Culture Reality

Culture doesn’t support strategy—it delivers or destroys it. This post unpacks how cultural antibodies attack unfamiliar ideas, and why ignoring culture reality can undo even the best-laid plans.

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Competition and Cost Realities

When leaders refuse to choose—between legacy and future, service and scale, investment and cost—they fall into the tradeoff trap.

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Capability Reality

Organizations often treat new capabilities as upgrades. But unless they align with existing strengths and beliefs, they create internal conflict.

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Customer Reality

Strategic failure often begins with misaligned customer definitions. This post explores how conflicting views of the customer can quietly sabotage even the most well-funded strategies.

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How a Strategy With All the Right Pieces Still Failed

Discover the five strategic realities every leader must face. Learn from a multi-million dollar failure that looked perfect on paper—but ignored the hidden forces that break strategy in the real world.

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The Dangerous Conflation of Strategy and Marketing

Discover why conflating strategy and marketing can be detrimental to business success. Learn to differentiate and leverage both for long-term advantage and sustainable growth.

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Cancer Didn't Win - It Made Me More Generous Instead

After a cancer diagnosis, I was shown a simple line chart that forever changed my perspective on life.

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Balance or Bust - Why Growth Shouldn't Eclipse Your Strategy

Growth without strategy is like wandering without a map - learn why you need to balance the two to set your business on a path to sustainable success!

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Leadership Lessons From 2020

2020 taught me a lot about myself and my own personal leadership. Here are 3 things I'm leaving behind in 2020, and 3 things I'm picking up in 2021.

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My Quarantine 2020 Podcast Recommendations

Podcasts have become a source of connection, inspiration, and professional development. Here are my podcast companions for 2020.

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Lessons from 18 Years of Blogging

Writing has taught me a lot over the years. Here are 3 important lessons that I've learned from blogging for nearly 2 decades.

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How to work for a boss you don't respect

Many of us have been in the situation where we're working for someone we don't have a lot of respect for. This can be frustrating, but here are 4 tips, plus 2 bonus hacks that you can use today to move things in a positive direction.

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Your Team Judges You, and Here is How

Your team evaluates whether or not to follow you based on 4 lenses. These 4 lenses align with 5 attributes that Gallup identifies in exceptional managers.