#424 – May 9, 2026 Hearing the Unsaid, Seeing the Overlooked Hello, fellow strategists! Much of what shapes organizational performance happens below the surface — in what people choose not to say, the workarounds quietly adopted, the strategic foundations skipped in the rush to create. This edition examines the cost of silence, AI’s shadow […]
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#423 – April 19, 2026 Time for a New Playbook? Hello, fellow strategists! The most costly mistakes in strategy often aren’t errors of effort — they’re errors of fit and focus. Using the wrong framework, trusting the wrong signal, or pushing analysis past the point where it stops helping. In this edition, we look at
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#420 – February 16, 2026 Advantage Begins with Positioning Hello, fellow strategists! In a noisy environment, advantage rarely comes from doing more. It comes from sharper positioning, clearer focus, and better leverage. In this edition, we explore four questions every strategy must answer; the risks of adding content instead of reframing it; the distortions created
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#418 – January 5, 2026 Navigating in an Age of Acceleration Hello, fellow strategists! 2026 is already asking more of us — faster decisions, clearer priorities, and better judgment about what truly matters. In this edition, we explore what to hold onto, what to change, and what to let go as we navigate an age
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#413 – September 15, 2025 Humans In the Loop Hello, fellow strategists! In this edition we focus on the oversized role certain individuals play in outcomes — whether that is bringing human originality to design when working with AI, managing crisis communications, streamlining the range of your products and services, or super-facilitating your team for
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#412 – August 24, 2025 Getting to the Heart of What Matters Hello, fellow strategists! In this edition we focus on getting straight to the heart of matters — strategically trimming off-target activities, discovering the core purpose for your life, coping with the “hyperactive hive mind”, separating the promise of AI from the hype, and
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#401 – Jan. 2, 2025 [6 Minute Read] Welcome to a new year, strategy-makers! Here are some insights, frameworks and tools to help you make better strategic decisions in 2025… Three Off the Top: What Employees Say Matters Most to Motivate Performance: McKinsey research reveals that 72% of workers identify investing time and
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[READING TIME: 8 MINUTES] In this 8020Info Water Cooler, we look at using dilemmas to build culture, the impact of surroundings on behaviour, ways to use AI as a helper, the need for managers to communicate, the VECTOR framework for top performance, and the myriad species of problems. Enjoy! 1. Focus on Dilemmas to Build
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In this 8020Info Water Cooler we look at questions to assess your personal performance this year, getting rid of “barnacles”, choosing a few key goals for action in 2024, reimagining marketing with AI in the mix, avoiding pitfalls in one-on-one meetings, success factors behind outperforming family-owned businesses, and our year-end shout-out. Enjoy!
Questions for your Personal Annual Review
Developing Goals for Next Year
Reimagining Marketing and Sales with AI
How to Have Lousy One-on-Ones
The List: Success Factors Behind Outperforming Family-Owned Businesses
Reading: Strategic
Reading: Elastic
Our 2023 Year-End Shout-Out
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In this 8020Info Water Cooler we look at defining problems for better decision-making, Elon Musk’s management “algorithm”, leadership in the AI era, managing your own ego, simple rules for balancing autonomy and collaboration in a complex world and, for fun, some new words. Enjoy!
How to Define a Decision-Making Problem
Elon Musk’s Management Algorithm
Leading the AI Expedition
How to Counter Your Egotistical Behaviour
The List: Simple Rules to Manage Complexity
New Words in the Language
Reading: Good Charts
Reading: Necessary Endings
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