Five key risks in business expansion
What a tools manufacturer weighed before entering the lubricants market: bandwidth, diversification, knowledge, money and competition.
Strategy and management
How business owners decide where to take their business next: strategy frameworks, the risks of expansion, and the problems leaders don’t see.
AlphaZero: A computer program which is not quite a computer program
A chess game with a cousin, and what a self-taught chess program suggests about creativity and business.
Launch strategy for a health app with the founders
Why a first release should be simple, lovable and complete, not only minimal and viable.
Resolve to become a purpose-driven business
A hospital's year-planning day, an administrator's challenge, and the director who owned up to letting the vision fade.
The Iceberg of Ignorance
Top management sees about 5% of a company's problems, staff see all of them, and why that matters for strategy.
Strategy begins with why
Four steps to designing a company's strategy: the current reality, a summation, the high-level future, and only then the detailed roadmap.
The Orange Swan Hypothesis
Black swans are sudden shocks. An orange swan is a sudden boom too big to meet alone, and how one company met it with a former rival.