In business there is an effect similar to gravity. A business’s history and culture acquires a mass of its own over time. That mass perpetuates the values and norms of the business. In large organizations the mass of its history becomes a monolith by many names “what we’ve always done,” “the right thing,” “what we learned last time,””weContinueContinue reading “The Demand of the Norm”
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Well Executed Failure
I’d like to talk about how strategic is different from tactical. Before you go calling me Tactico-Strategicus, be warned that I differ in perspective with the tyrant in an important way. If you remember, the tyrant views tactical and strategic as a balance between near and long term plans. I’d rather distinguish strategic and tactical as occupying two different realms of thought.ContinueContinue reading “Well Executed Failure”
Ode to a Tyrant: Tactico-Strategicus
Kicking off our periodic series of odes to tyrants in business, Tactico-Strategicus boldly steps forth. With reckless abandon, this tyrant charges the line of other’s thought swiping down his adversaries. He will only allow to survive those ideas that have a ‘long-termishness’ or ‘future-statiness’ to them. He does this in service of the higher cause; strategy. Tactico-Strategicus isContinueContinue reading “Ode to a Tyrant: Tactico-Strategicus”
Return on Intelligence 