Lafley’s Playing to Win details the importance of creating and developing a sound strategy for every business. He raises 5 critical questions that every organization must be able to answer with confidence. Playing to Win: Takeaway # 1: Winning IS Strategy A […]
Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter makes the case that you need a thorough understanding of industry competition to position yourself strategically as a firm. This tenet was a breakthrough when first presented in 1980, and has completely changed how companies […]
One of my favourate authors on leadership, lists the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, that speaks to itself for each leader/aspiring leader! Do you consider yourself a born leader? Few people do – and for good reason. Even if you’re […]
a Winning Business Level Strategy is concerned with the strategic planning and execution of initiatives for business units. Business strategy is considered the ‘middle’ level in the overall strategy hierarchy. Thinking in terms of strategy levels is a useful way of dividing up […]
Using the Power of Simplicity to Succeed Be a hedgehog in business, and embrace simplicity! the Hedgehog Concept is one of the key themes that Jim Collins book Good to Great recommends business leaders focus on. If you could choose […]
Of all the books I have read over the last 10 years, Good to Great by Jim Collins is one of my keystone reference guides – it is just that important a read! In Jim’s previous best seller Built to Last explains […]
“Range” is an Why Generalists triumph in a specialist world, for me, the contest between specialisation and generalisation, has been a very tactile and tangible experience, hence I LOVED learning from David Epstein in his book RANGE. I finished by undergrad, in […]
I first read Stephen Covey’s book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, in July 2012 whilst on a very challenging assignment in Western Australia, inheriting an off the rails $XXXm project, I felt I needed a miracle. That miracle came […]
I was recently reviewing some old notes and ran across a comment made by David Merkel from the Aleph Blog back in 2013. The discussion centered around the impact of volatility on investment disciplines. The most important concept is that […]
In this blogpost we want to highlight a few examples of where the availability of a marketplace for IoT data can bring great value. First question we need to ask, who will sell data? There are a number of data sellers […]