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: Mindset
Life Words
Some experienced words on what you’re in for.
Meaning is Yours to Make
Identifying what it means to do strategy. The strategy life is a constant rummage for meaning. “Is it this? Is it that? Is that thing…
How Other People Block Strategy
How to navigate your career in strategy. Not everybody with whom you’ll work will want you to succeed. This can be confusing. Over time, you’ll…
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…
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.…