Articles

Culture & Strategy

Safi Bahcall, noted physicist and author of bestselling Loon Shots, makes a compelling case for understanding 'control parameters' and the dynamics of phase transitions in organizations.

Operating State

Companies gravitate to one of four 'Operating States,' based on their degree of Resilience and Ingenuity. Resilience correlates with the capacity to absorb disruption without losing function.

Vision & Leadership

We've claimed vision is a critical element for sustained viability. One of the more interesting cases we can learn from is playing out in real time — involving a company that most of us know well.

Strategy

Think Different. Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point was just one in a long line of books challenging conventional thinking — a mindset that continues to reshape how leaders frame strategy.

Strategy & Analytics

What the 2002 Oakland A's accomplished was just short of miraculous: twenty wins in a row, a division title, on a payroll one-third the Yankees'. The same mindset shift that powered Moneyball can illuminate what's costing you performance wins today.

Culture & Workforce

The Great Resignation made Peter Drucker's thirty-year-old prophecy land harder than ever: the lifelong workforce contract is irrevocably broken. The shift to knowledge work now calls into question the very nature of what a company is.

Culture Diagnostics

Five years in, the business is growing at an unprecedented rate, but you no longer have the personal relationships that anchored your earliest hires. Your instincts say it's a culture problem — but what exactly is that, and how do you diagnose it?

Vision & Strategy

Gartner's Magic Quadrant demands excelling at two things: ability to execute and completeness of vision. What's not obvious is how vision, strategy, and culture combine — and how a Magic Culture is the foundation underneath all three.

Resilience & Ingenuity

Sixty-eight percent of executives believe culture is a source of competitive advantage. Fewer than ten percent report success in building one. The two qualities required — resilience and ingenuity — are easier to name than to cultivate.