public Organizations • 8 min read Andy Grove on Balancing Top-down vs Bottom-up Approaches to Leadership Ever wonder why that particular initiative of yours never got traction? Organizational politics kills more initiatives than people realize, and…
public Frameworks/Mental Models • 4 min read Singular Big Bet vs Multiple Small Bets-Two Contrasting Approaches to Strategy In their book, Business Experimentation, Rob James and Jules Goddard highlight two approaches to strategy that are diametrically opposite to…
Frameworks/Mental Models • 4 min read Strategy as Tetris rather than Chess Is chess a good analogy to describe decision making and strategy in organizations? For most folks, probably not. Less in…
Frameworks/Mental Models • 2 min read Mintzberg on Managing the Flow of Information and Influence Managerial effectiveness often hinges on how well their unit interacts not just internally but externally as well. In one definition,…
public Frameworks/Mental Models • 11 min read What is Implicit Leadership Theory and How it Affects Careers What makes someone “leadership material”? We would like to think there’s an objective answer to that question. But often…
public Frameworks/Mental Models • 16 min read Why Developing Negative Capability is Critical in Leadership We think of capability as a positive term— it’s active and additive rather than passive and subtractive. In leadership,…
public Frameworks/Mental Models • 30 min read A Strategy of Small Wins and Small Bets - Typical Mistakes and How to Get it Right In 1984 Karl Weick published a seminal paper titled Small Wins in the American Psychologist Journal. Four decades later, the…
Careers • 19 min read 35 Essential Mid Career Change Frameworks Changing or quitting careers is hard. Doubly so in mid-career. Should I quit or stay? I grappled with that question…
public Frameworks/Mental Models • 20 min read The Mundanity of Excellence - Greatness as Mastering the Mundane Greatness and mastery always look shrouded in mystery from the outside. But look closely and it's more about…
Complexity • 5 min read Strategic Timeframes - Balancing Long Term Focus with Short Term Actions Leadership, management, and organizations are riddled with paradoxes. The more we recognize them the more we can be effective in…
public Frameworks/Mental Models • 30 min read How Bezos Thinks - All his Frameworks and Mental Models In 1994 Amazon was just an idea in someone’s head, that of Jeff Bezos. Today it's a…
Complexity • 3 min read Linear Causality vs Circular Causality in Decision Making The "if...then" way of thinking about cause and effect is common in business. Circular causality is often…