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Why execution keeps failing for predictable reasons This is Article 6 in a seven-part series examining what the NCSU 2026 Top Risks Report surfaces, and what it doesn’t. The report …

Why Speed Becomes Dangerous When Strategy Is Unclear This is the 2nd in a series of seven articles Few explanations feel as intuitively correct as this one: we’re moving too …

A seven-part executive series on why strategy, change, and risk keep disconnecting When strategy, change, and risk operate in separate orbits, something predictable happens: strategy becomes abstract, change becomes disruptive, …

We’re not “going through a rough patch” anymore. We’re living in a long hallway. That hallway is what anthropologists call a liminal space: you’ve left the old room, the new …

You’ve redesigned the office. Implemented hot-desks. Created flexible work policies. Yet nothing feels different; in fact, it might feel worse. Here’s why: You’re trying to run modern navigation software on …

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The Executive's Edge in 2025
Turn Ambition into Outcomes As we approach the midpoint of 2025, CFOs and C-suite leaders worldwide share...
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BREAKING THE GROWTH-RISK PARADOX
How to Align Strategy, Processes, Systems, and People for Sustainable Success Companies across various...
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The Six Myths that are Messing up your Ability to Execute
Organizations struggle with execution at different levels, starting with strategy.  It’s not because...
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REIMAGINING RISK
Embracing BANI as an Approach for Future-Ready Organizations The Shift Our world is filled with overlapping...
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This is not the Time for a Crisis
It is true! There is evidence that strategy is in crisis! Strategy (not strategic planning) is often...
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The Values That Are The Keystone
If these values don’t hold it all together, nothing will. When I was 15 years old, I learned what...
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