Summary Insight: Your work style isn’t just personality—it’s how you manage energy. Learn to read the four universal forces in yourself and others, and you’ll stop managing people and start orchestrating performance. Key Takeaways: There are four core forces—Producing, Stabilizing,
The secret to understanding management is this: Complex adaptive systems (such as people and organizations) must (1) shape and respond to changes in the environment and (2) do so as whole organisms, including their parts and sub-parts. If they are
There’s a popular view among technology startups that a smart business strategy is to build a product that’s designed for the leading industry giant to acquire. It usually sounds something like this: “We’re building the next-generation router that Cisco will
Before a startup ever launches, you should have a checklist of critical items in place. These items have nothing to do with writing a business plan or forming the articles of incorporation. In line with the old saying “well begun
When It Comes to Strategic Execution, Sequence Matters Summary Insight: Most companies stall or die because they misalign their org with the stage of growth. This article gives you the execution roadmap—and the forces you need to scale without breaking.
Go Fast But Don’t Skip a Stage Summary Insight: Great strategy isn’t a shortcut—it’s a sequence. If you skip steps, you’ll flame out, face-plant, or lose the market to someone who didn’t. Key Takeaways: Align product, market, and execution lifecycles
Everything has a lifecycle. It is born, it grows, it ages, and it ultimately dies. It’s easy to spot a lifecycle in action everywhere you look. A person is born, grows, ages, and dies. So does a star, a tree,
Every potential business strategy has the same ultimate aim. This is true whether you are trying to sell your business, go IPO, enter a new market, raise venture capital, hire top-notch talent, fend off competitors, manage increasing regulations, win an
During one cold winter in Minnesota, I worked as a college intern for the mayor’s office in St. Paul. There are two things I still remember about the job. One, my twenty-year-old Toyota Corolla had a broken heater and so
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