Seeing Around Corners

As part of my research for my new book, I’ve been revisiting many management classics, including Arie de Geus’ book “The Living Company.”  It’s a gem, and reveals what can happen when we don’t treat… Read more »

The field of strategy has long been anchored to the idea that industries exist and that the normal state of things is in equilibrium. Maybe that was the way things were, but it certainly isn’t… Read more »

Most of the time, bringing an innovation to life doesn’t work out. But sometimes, in a magical moment, product-market fit is achieved, the market responds and there is a glorious period of success. But the… Read more »

The theory of monopoly has to date been firmly rooted in the analog world.  Traditionally, a monopoly occurred when there was a single seller or producer and no close substitutes. With the Justice Department’s ruling… Read more »

Wasn’t it amazing that Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” was able to put a feminist spin on aggressive pink? Well here we are in the summer of 2024 and slime green has taken its place. Brat summer… Read more »

When people in organizations talk about their incentive systems, inevitably the conversation involves compensation.  Often, it stops there. But the wonderful work of Steve Kerr and others demonstrates that many things in your incentive system… Read more »

Research on how well people can predict the future comes to a resounding conclusion:  not well.  Asking “What will happen to me?” in a future situation misses the point. Instead, it’s much more fruitful to… Read more »

When the top leadership of an organization changes, boards often make decisions that seem sensible, but which may not reflect the pattern that made a company successful to begin with.  A major reason is that… Read more »

If the above reference sounds obscure, it’s from an old Rogers & Hammerstein musical that I was taken to as a child and every June, I simply cannot get it out of my head. It’s… Read more »

Speculating about what’s next for the workplace has become quite the hobby. Will it be place-bound or not? Will AI take jobs or create new ones? How can we scale systems but retain our humanity? … Read more »

Well over 1,000 participants joined in live for my Coaching.com session, “The Permissionless Organization Has Arrived.”  Many asked wonderful questions that we didn’t have time to get to in the session.  Here are a select… Read more »

We’ve been talking a lot about bubbles this month. An economic bubble happens when the market assigns a value to an asset that is disconnected from its true economic value. Mortgage CDO’s. Tulips. Dotcoms. You… Read more »