Why Is a Broad Perception Critical For Creativity, and Decision Making.

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No Amount of Analysis Can Reveal a Concept That Isn’t Already There

In the...

Why Both Research and Diagnosis are Invaluable Tools in Your Strategy Toolkit

Once you have identified your objective, you are ready to begin researching the "problem"...

How Business Strategies Impact Your Success

An effective business strategy is the basis for a successful business in our over-communicated...

Strategies For Competitive Markets

Strategies For Competitive Markets

Customers demand that businesses give them something new in...

Incremental Innovation For Competitive Markets

Incremental Innovation For Competitive Markets

In our constantly changing world, customers demand that...

Want A Creative Solution To An “Unsolvable” Problem?

There Is A Creative Solution To Most Problems

You've...

How To Create Strategies For Business Growth

How To Use Business Growth Strategies To Become A Superior Competitor  

If you...

Innovative Strategies: Leverage Potential Change

Exploit Market...

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The Random Word Technique/A Creative Tool For New Ideas

  It is our perceptions that control emotions, and emotions control behavior. If your perception changes, you...

How Much Will People Pay For Your New Product?

How Much Will People Pay For Your New Product?

Leverage Strategy Through Inertia and Entropy

In business, inertia is a company's unwillingness or inability to adapt to changing circumstances.  Even with change...

How To Use Dynamics To Find The Strategic Highground

How to use dynamics to strengthen your strategy is from Professor Richard Rumelt’s book, “Good Strategy/Bad Strategy.”...

How To Identify And Use Your Competitive Advantage

Which company has the advantage? Neither one. Because advantage is rooted in differences in...

The Foundation Of A Strategy Is The Kernel

  According to Richard Rumelt, Professor and author, a good strategy has an underlying structure built on...

Leverage Strategy Through Inertia and Entropy

In business, inertia is a company’s unwillingness or inability to adapt to changing circumstances.  Even...

What Is A Good Strategy

First of all, If you have a strategy, you have a natural advantage because your competitors...

What Is A Strategy?

The basic definition of strategy is overcoming obstacles. Following  is the definition of strategy according to...

How to turn negative problems into positive results

How to turn negative problems into positive results

If you are in business,...

How to turn negative problems into positive results

If you are in business, problem-solving is a constant part of your business life. No problem...

How You Approach Problem-Solving Matters

No matter who you are, a seasoned businessman or an entrepreneur, you continuously face different problems...

How You Approach Problem-Solving Matters

How You Approach Problem-Solving Matters

No matter who you are, a seasoned businessman...

How To Turn Problems Into Opportunities

How To Turn Problems Into Opportunities

Being a founder or CEO of a...

How To Find Out If Your New Idea Will Sell And For How Much

How To Find Out If Your New Idea Will Sell And For How Much

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Why Business Stories Drive Success

Why Business Stories Drive Success

Why don’t more entrepreneurs use stories to explain their business?

15 Benefits Of Storytelling In Businesses

 Why don’t more entrepreneurs use stories to explain their business? The reason maybe they don’t understand the...

What Information To Put Into Your Story To Make It Successful?  

What Information You Need To Put Into Your Story To Make It Successful?  

Every story...

Why A Core Story Is Critical To Your Success

Why A Core Story Is Critical To Your Success

When you look at startups that have developed...

Creating And Sustaining A Competitive Advantage

An advantage is rooted in asymmetries among rivals. It is leadership's job to identify which asymmetries could...

Anticipation Is A Strategy Leverage

Anticipation is simply Insights into anticipated future events or others' behavior that you can turn into

How To Use Anticipation As A Powerful Strategy Tool

Insights into anticipated future events or behavior can deliver opportunities. In business, these insights are generally about...

7 Ways To Sell Subscriptions

This information is from John  Warrillow's, book: The automatic customer: Create subscriptions in any industry and from...

Why Your Strategy’s General Policy Is Critical

SnapDeal is an Indian company that is very successful in selling high-transaction products to value-conscious customers. They...

Positioning: An Important Way To Differentiate Your Brand

SaaS companies are no longer unique, and most have many SaaS competitors with similar...

Customer-Centered: How Can I Help You?

In today’s world, most people realize that you must put the customer first, not...

An alternative way to get the insight you need to create your strategy

 An alternative way to get the insight you need to create your strategy   This is an...

An alternative diagnosis with an emphasis on creating value vs. competitors

An alternative way to do your diagnosis with an emphasis on creating value vs. competitors This alternative...

Diagnosis: Understanding your industry structure and it’s competitive forces

Diagnosis: Understanding your industry structure and the competitive forces driving profits A good place to start your diagnosis is...

Insights, not data or information lead to better strategic decisions.

Insights, not data or information lead to better strategic decisions.

Why Do Some Strategies Fail?

Why Do Some Strategies Fail?

Six Different Ways To Diagnose Your Problem

Six Different Ways To Diagnose Your Problem

Getting To An Agreed Definition Of The Problem

  In the last article, we ended with a definition of a strategy as a simple description...

General Policy and Cohort Action

In addition to diagnosis, we also need to look at the other two parts of the...

How To Set Your Company Apart From Your Competition

Strategy: How to set your company apart from

your competition and control your destiny

Start With Why

Before we begin the discussion of strategy, I want to mention the idea of pre-strategy, which I define...