I read this on the Harvard Business Review blog. It’s by Roger Martin: “Corporate strategists often struggle with strategic options. First, there’s a lot of worrying about what they have to come up with to make the proposed option credible: they spend hours on SWOT analyses and spreadsheets, which gives them reasons to kill their [Continue]
So I’m in a coffee shop, doing a bit of filing around my Mac. And a woman walks up to me and wants to know if I recommend the Macintosh platform (I do.) She’s a marketing guru, retrenched for two days because she didn’t want to relocate to Cape Town. And I have some branding [Continue]
Notes from Peter Block’s Flawless Consulting morning We live and operate in a patriarchal society. The most important thing is control, consistency and predicatility. If you ask somebody if they would rather have control or results, they opt for control, every time a coconut. Control, as Block puts it, is the “coin of the realm.” [Continue]
