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 fast. Across boardrooms and executive teams, competitive pace is routinely cited as a top risk. Markets are shifting. Technology cycles are compressing. Expectations are accelerating. …
What are we really doing while we wait to “notch a point,” and does the point even matter? From ledgers to Balanced Scorecards Score-keeping has been a part of commerce since the days of clay tablets, but the modern business “scorecard” traces its roots to the early 1990s, when Robert Kaplan and David Norton published …
A Business Thriller About the Capacity Cliff Picture a night highway outside the city: headlights white‑knuckle the asphalt, engines humming at the red line. For a mile or two, the traffic feels exhilarating, pure speed, no brake lights. Then someone taps the pedal. One wobble becomes a ripple, the ripple becomes gridlock, and suddenly the …
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The Top 3 Elements for Success in Uncertain Times The world is changing faster than ever before, and the challenges facing businesses are intensifying. From economic volatility and trade tariffs to geopolitical instability and the growing impact of AI, the risks confronting companies are more complex and interconnected than at any other point in history. …
Some would say that risks have changed dramatically over the past decade or more. While the risks may have changed, what hasn’t is the practice of how risks are managed. What I witnessed as ‘risk management’ in the early 1990s is much the same today, though much is touted about the value added that comes …
