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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com Today, your executive team fills SWOT boxes in 90 minutes and calls it strategy. Tomorrow’s competitive landscape will punish that superficiality mercilessly. Chris Fox predicts the emerging standard: double-barreled insight generation that combines intellectual analysis with visceral pattern recognition. The companies …
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In the early 1980s, McKinsey told my employer at the time, AT&T, that the global market for mobile phones would top out at roughly 900,000 subscribers by 2000. The actual number was 100 million. A decade later, AT&T paid $11.5 billion for McCaw Cellular to claw its way back into the market it had walked …
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You’re in a strategy retreat. You see an opening to shift the conversation—a strategic insight you know could change the trajectory. You speak up with confidence. And then… blank looks. Awkward silence. The room moves on as if you hadn’t spoken. It doesn’t matter if you’re the CEO, the board chair, or an ambitious director. …
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