The class of business science students that I teach strategy are heading out into the world in January. They have a unique outlook on life which they will need as they head into a world as uncertain today as anytime that I remember in my 44 years. We need to stop looking businesses to work for. I meet a lot of people every month and a lot of people are asking how they will get a job or get a better

All the usual suspects have written living eulogies of Steve Jobs (Economist, Bloomberg, HBR, Forbes, WSJ, Washington Post) since he decided to step down as CEO of Apple on August 24th for health reasons. In this day and age it's great that a CEO get's to quit on his own terms, many wait until they are pushed and then it is all about their golden handshakes rather than what they have achieved. Steve

Using 3m in the same sentence as innovation is pretty cliched these days. They are one of the companies that are held up over and over again for their success at innovating. What is less known is how they get it right. Bottom line, a lot of common sense. The big question, why do so many companies have so little common sense?

The old retirement worked on the basis that you work your whole life and save like mad so you can get to 60 and 65 and then hope like crazy that you don’t live longer than you have money to live because if you do you are so far out of the market that you can never recover. Keywords - mad and crazy. The new retirement says retire today. Retire from work that is not meaningful and a life which

We've all seen it. Perhaps even been in a session. Endless discussion leading to a watered down list of things that need to be done that are then dressed up under the name strategy. If it's a long list we call it long term strategy. Sadly but rather predictably, the session is repeated a year later with not much different happening in between. Just because it's called a strategy day doesn't mean