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Have you ever had that feeling that your executive team is all saying they understand and support the strategy but you sense that they are …

Smart people hate to be told what to do or say. Yet way too often leaders are given a standard set of powerpoint slides or …

We help lots of organisations turn their strategies into memorable and concrete strategic stories. In doing so, a key factor is ensuring its not a …

Last week I flew to Vienna to help a pharmaceutical company develop their strategy. It was a two day event. We used the first day …

  “Government managers secure the resources they need to operate not by selling products and services to individual customers, but by selling a story of …

Herb Kelleher [the longest-serving CEO of Southwest] once told someone, “I can teach you the secret to running this airline in thirty seconds. This is …

Last year IBM released their Global CEO Study 2012, which involved more than 1,700 CEOs, general managers and senior public sector leaders from around the …

I recently had the opportunity (and privilege) to attend a masterclass with [Richard Rumelt](http://www.strategyland.com/), one of the world’s most influential thinkers on strategy and management, …

One of the challenges embedding a strategy is helping people relate their job to it. Strategies often seems distant and abstract. How does a person …

Cynthia A. Montgomery is the Timken Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. One of the programs she teaches is for accomplished executives and …