Strategy

Before you can decide what you will do, you have to decide what you won’t.

Few companies or organizations are looking to fail when they plot a new strategy.  However, turning a blind eye to the possibility that a strategy may fail can have disastrous consequences. According to Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School and leading expert on strategy and disruption, there is an “intelligent way of failing” that can leave organizations stronger.

Professor Rita McGrath

Strategy is often thought of as the exclusive preserve of top management, but organizational alignment is impossible without everyone’s participation.

You should have two versions of your career story: a social pitch and a longer interview pitch.

The country’s lumbering growth in the wake of the financial recession has been blamed on a number of macro-economic trends, but corporate risk-aversion has played a role too.

Is it conceivable that Donald Trump could win the US presidency? And how did his candidacy get this far in the first place?

The savviest campaigners leverage lessons from the private sector for success on the stump.

The 2016 campaign season has been defined in part by a breakdown in longstanding party coalitions, leaving an unusually large percentage of the electorate either unsure of how to vote or determined to stay home.