Leadership Toolkits
A Toolkit for Developing and Executing Strategy
Our most popular insights on goal setting and communicating strategic priorities effectively.
Talent Management
From Vision to Reality: How OKRs Are Reshaping Team Goals in 2024
Apply the objectives and key results model to align individual- and team-level goals with broader organizational aims.
Talent Management
Identify Critical Roles to Improve Performance
Executing strategy requires understanding your critical roles and putting your best people in them.
Developing Strategy
How Ghost Scenarios Haunt Strategy Execution
Executives must confront a strategic planning blind spot: their assumptions about the future business context.
Financial Management & Risk
Risk Intelligence and the Resilient Company
A more logical approach to risk management can help leaders sustain value generation through disruption and uncertainty.
Technology Innovation Strategy
The Incumbent’s Deep Tech Strategy Playbook
The authors created a three-step framework aimed at helping leaders at incumbent companies identify and execute their deep-tech engagement strategies.
Developing Strategy
Strategizing Across Organizations
Solving big, systemic problems will require organizations to come together to develop strategies as a group.
Developing Strategy
Using Black Hat Workshops to Understand Your Competitors
Black hat workshops can help you model your company’s competitive landscape before making the next strategic move.
Innovation Strategy
Effective Innovation Begins With Strategic Direction
To get more from their innovation efforts, businesses must first determine what type of change they want to achieve.
Developing Strategy
Why Good Arguments Make Better Strategy
Creating consistently great business strategies demands systematic constructive debate and logical rigor.
Developing Strategy
Open Up Your Strategy
A more inclusive strategy-making process is needed when disruptions come from all directions.
Business Models
Disrupt Your Own Business First
Developing truly innovative strategy requires workshopping your own company’s disruption.
Developing Strategy
With Goals, FAST Beats SMART
Traditional goal setting undermines the alignment, coordination, and agility needed to execute strategy.