Impostor Syndrome
Understanding imposter syndrome to navigate it. Dr Clance and Dr Imes identified the impostor phenomenon in the 1970s. In recent years, it’s found fame as…
Topic Category: Behavioral sciences
Strategy Work is Creative Work
One of the most important things to embrace is that strategy work is creative work. The challenge is creating a culture in which people don’t…
Insights are Survival
Another way to think about insights. Insights help us survive. This makes them serious work. But, while insights can make a serious impact, it’s not…
The “5 Whys” and the “Problem Behind the Problem”
Learn how to use ‘The 5 whys’ to get to the root cause of a problem. The techniques Dump-A-Problem and S.W.O.T. help us get our…
Problems are Worth Having
Understand how problems(and knowing what they are) can be a good thing. Problems help us sell, they captivate our brains, and they house solutions. Finding…
All Ideas Cross the Line
Understand the difference between an idea and a thought. To discuss strategy is to discuss ideas. So we need to understand the difference between ideas…
Secret About Ideas
How should we think of an ‘idea’? You can use words however you’d like to use words. But when we cheapen words like “idea”, we…
You Run Too Much
Settle in because I’m going to take you to Italy. And then to other places. And I’m going to do this while poking at you.…