Helping Values-Driven Leaders With the Hard Stuff
Ash Srinivas’ friend Weyton received the heartbreaking diagnosis. He had Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Read the full article here.
VisuALS’ Startup Strategy Skeleton Read More »
Given my background in both strategy and startups, I’d like to propose a strategic roadmap for entrepreneurs. Read the full article here.
The Startup Strategic Journey Read More »
“Strategy” and “Stragedy” sound almost identical, but they are polar opposites. Click here to listen to the podcast explaining what a stragedy is and how to avoid it.
Episode 2: What is Stragedy? Read More »
Today we wrapped up the second part of the webinar with Unconventional Business. In today’s session, I introduced the tools for each of the 5 strategic planning steps and gave a simple example for each. The video will be available next week, but for now I’ve posted the slides at this link.
Webinar: Planning Through the Pandemic, Part 2 Read More »
This week I’ve been reflecting back on some of the previous teams from OC and I thought one experience from the Impulse Drive team and a Strategy Lab might be particularly helpful.
Whither the Wind Blows Read More »
The book presents a number of concepts that are helpful at various stages in strategy development.
Book Glance: Competing for the Future Read More »
In today’s tutorial, we introduce the Purpose Pyramid and demonstrate how to use it in strategy development.
Whiteboard Tutorial: The Purpose Pyramid Read More »
On April 16, Rick Boxx of Unconventional Business Network interviewed me as part of their weekly webcast series.
Webinar: Planning Through the Pandemic, Part 1 Read More »
In this Whiteboard Tutorial, we will learn how to do a Situation Assessment. Below are clean versions of what is scrawled on the whiteboard.
Whiteboard Tutorial: Situation Analysis/Assessment Read More »
Over the past two weeks we’ve taken a tour of the history of telecom innovator Sprint, from its humble beginnings in small town Kansas to its final merger into global giant T-Mobile. We’ve examined the different stages along the way through a strategic lens. This article is intended to tie the whole series together into one timeline. Entries below are linked to the articles that tell the stories.
1986 United and GTE announced a 50–50 joint venture merging US Telecom and GTE Sprint to form US Sprint
1999 Sprint created the PCS tracking stock for the wireless business and bought out the cable partners
2000 Regulators blocked MCI Worldcom acquisition of Sprint
Strategic History of Sprint Read More »