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Three Fold Test: Is Your Strategy Working?

As a consultant, I recommend this simple three-fold test to validate whether or not the strategy (s) you have crafted and executed are working. First...

Thoughts on Thinking Critically: The 5 Steps

I want you to poke the bear and challenge, with respect, your colleagues, instructors, with evidence-based positions, not rhetoric. In most cases there are...

Selected New Mental Models Required by Strategists

Here are some selected new mental models required by strategists. First, how do strategists shape their reality? According to Peter Senge's best-seller The Fifth Discipline:...

Value Based Leadership: Organizations’ Invisible Guiding Hand

The importance of value-based leadership is even more critical in times of crisis. These are such times. Our ecosystem impacted by the global flu and...

Universal Application: Is it possible to carry on a valid discussion of “Asian” values?”

Recently during one of my graduate classes we found ourselves discussing regional values. In the course that discussion one of my very talented Chinese...

Communication – The Medium is the Message.

“Canadian Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan’s well-known phrase-- the medium is the message-- is a good thing for strategist to remember when exercising strategic leadership...

Micro Strategic Thoughts – Communication with the 3Fs

I joined the Army at a young age. One of the first steps up for a small leadership role requires completion of a junior...

Public Private Partnerships

Public-private partnerships often referred to as P3's have reemerged and been in vogue since the early 1980s. As the directing minds of public, private,...

Mergers and Acquisitions

Mergers and Acquisitions: (Power Transcript (podcast to follow) This is the second of three podcasts prepared by Professor Power for the RRU Masters of Business...

A Strategist’s Perspective- Part B

A Strategist's Perspective Part B Transcript (Podcast to follow)-2015 A strategist understands that the three scarce resources within an organization are discretionary spending, talent and...

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