My recent article on creating a “Map of Paris” to help your organization get unstuck generated a lot of positive feedback, including a few inquiries as to how managers can more generally improve their ...

“You need to think more strategically; you need to be more strategic!” It’s one of the most common, but least helpful, pieces of feedback professionals receive. It sounds smart, it sounds wise, it ...

Ali Bayat is the founder of Migrs, a global mobility intelligent platform, and a member of the Investment Migration Council (IMC). For a long time, global mobility had been something people only ...

For most of us, reinvention—of our careers and ourselves—is an extremely tall order. As London Business School professor Herminia Ibarra notes, you might know what you don’t want to do any more but be ...

When scaling my company, I learned that strategy wasn’t about having a brilliant idea but about making intelligent, well-informed decisions over time. As an Inc. 500 CEO and now as a strategic coach, ...

Nonprofit leaders, midlevel managers, and frontline staff sometimes view strategic planning as one more task heaped onto near-impossible workloads. After all, developing a strategic plan — by ...

Instead, middle and senior managers are trained to hit key performance indicators, optimize efficiency, and execute directives from above. They’re expected to “own” their results but rarely given the ...

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On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis explores how history’s greatest leaders balanced vision, resources, and morality. Using examples from Alexander the Great to Lincoln and Churchill, Gaddis shows ...