Why Your Best Team Might Be Building Your Worst Disaster Picture this: A talented leadership team. Top-tier credentials. Flawless execution. Every metric trending green. And yet, five years later, the company is fighting for survival—or worse, gone entirely. This isn’t a story about incompetence. It’s something far more insidious. It’s about intelligent people trapped inside …
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The Strategy Handoff Crisis: Why Your Successor Can’t Think Like You Do
Companies obsess over documenting financial controls. They create detailed procedure manuals for operations. Yet when it comes to transferring strategic thinking between executives, most organizations fail spectacularly. The problem isn’t a lack of documentation. It’s documenting the wrong things entirely. The Six-Month Struggle Every Incoming Executive Faces Here’s a scenario playing out in boardrooms worldwide: …
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Why Your 2050 Strategy Must Start Today: Lessons from a 15-Year Failure
Will your organization survive the next 25 years? More importantly, are the decisions you’re making today planting the seeds of future irrelevance? The US Coast Guard wrestled with these questions and discovered something counterintuitive: to truly understand today’s challenges, you need to view them from 25 years in the future. Their Project Evergreen initiative proved …
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