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What do Taylor Swift, Sting, Jay Z, Kanye West, and Andrea Bocelli all have in common?

4 Actions Transformational Leaders Take

Your Most Valuable Competitive Advantage is about to Evaporate

Building the Transformational Company- Case Study in Impact

How has the way you think about Strategy Changed?

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO PERFORM EFFECTIVELY AS A BOARD?

The NCAA Upsets Aren’t What You Think They Are

What Makes Stripe Different?

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday and end to 2020

How to avoid being a Zombie Company

All the Best Restaurants in the World have 1 thing in Common

How can you make M&A your Competitive Advantage: Earned Insights from A Global Growth CEO

What do a Milan Restaurant opened in 1899 and Digital Transformation share?

RESOLVE Don't REPORT: A Simple Way to Gain Organizational Speed

The Year Camping Became Super Cool Again- 2020

How You can Use Simulations to Improve Your Strategy Today

DELTA AIRLINES, LUFTHANSA, AND QATAR AIRWAYS ANNOUNCE NEW SKYCONNECT ALLIANCE

5 Powerful Reasons Why Your Strategy Requires a Renovation

How well does your company structure reflect what you claim your Strategy is?

What do Just Eat Takeaway.com's Acquisition of Grubhub and Sailor Giovanni da Verrazzano Share?

Five Top Business Books CEOs Should be Reading Today

Do you want to be more Strategic? Start by studying a Golden

How Can You Get Started with Digital Transformation?

Complete This 1 Page Covid Scenario Analysis to Reduce Your Risk

How Covid 19 Can Be A Catalyst to Make Your Company Stronger

The Economics of a Pandemic

Your Strategy is no longer valid.

Digital Platforms and Ecosystems

What Can you do to Lead today?

How well is your business prepared for Industry Shift? Consider Energy

Bose Cuts the Retail Cord: What Industry shifts mean for YOUR business

Why the Next Piece of Clothing you Buy will be made by a Robot in Your Local Store

Why Air Canada Serves the Same Breakfast for Over 25 years?

Superbcrew CEO Interview - Over 250,000 Use KandF™ Critical Thinking Tools to Resolve Issues Faster and with Better Outcomes

Your Strategic Assumptions Can Make or Break You - Just Consider the Recent Demise of the A380

Where do your profits come from?

How to Mitigate Your Risk on Brexit...Now

Is Your Strategic Planning Agile Enough?

How you can use your Strategic Review to increase performance

What you need to know about Due Diligence for Joint Ventures

What is a Strategic Review?

Back to the Future: Why the Automotive Industry is Facing an Existential Strategic Crisis

How you can accelerate your business integration following a merger and acquistion

Mergers & Acquisitions 2017 Virtual Round Table

The Book Consultants Don’t Want You to Read...

Tools to Develop a CEO Mindset

How to Create a Simple and Stimulating Strategy

Tim Lewko Speaking at the CEO Forum in Europe

Discussion with Skip Pritchard: How to Set and Simplify Business Strategy

How Amazon’s Acquisition of Whole Foods Could Impact Your Company’s Growth

How to Become a Better Decision Maker

4 Skillsets Of A Strategic CEO

Making Big Decisions Delivering More Predictable Outcomes

3 Essential Steps to Better QBRs

How To Maximize Shareholder Value By Building Predictable EBITDA

3 Things to Prevent the “We Almost Hit Our Budget Numbers" Syndrome

3 Challenges You as a CEO Will Face in 2017

In 2014 Tom Petty had the No. 1 Spot on the Billboard Hot 100: Why Your Metrics may no Longer be Working

Airbnb now has a Market Valuation Higher Than Marriott Hotels

You Must “Own the Product” for Long-term Success

Customers of the Future- Decide Which Customers You Must Attract

What Makes Your Business Better? If You Don't Know, Figure it Out!

5 Important B2B Purchase Considerations

Knowing Your Customers: How and Why it Pays

FastTrack your career and your company? Internationalization - Here's How

Are your teams spending time and resources as they should?

The Biggest Budgeting Blunder that Kills Growth

How to Tell Your CEO He/She is Wrong and NOT GET FIRED

Is Your Strategy Missing the ROIC Link?

3 Secrets to Make Market Intelligence Timely and Actionable

Don't Be a Winner - Be Profitable

How to Calibrate World Class Alignment with Your Strategy

Act Don’t React: How to Frame Issues for Better Results

Many Organizations Say, "Our People Are Our Greatest Asset..."

Dropbox vs the World- What we can all learn from a $10 billion startup

Will it Make the Boat go Faster?

Changes Bring Benefits - Staying the Same Rarely Drives New Results

Mixed Up on Metrics?

Did You Ever Wonder Why Companies Don’t Have a VP of Profitability?

4 Reasons Not to Outsource Strategic Thinking to Consultants

5 Irreplaceable Traits of Great Strategic Thinkers

Strategic Planning – Process or Event?

Why Every CEO Needs This One Piece of Paper To Nail Down Expectations

With 2015 around the corner- what will you do differently next year?

5 Strategy Killers to Remove from Your Company

Strategy is Similar to a Gym Club Membership-

Why Poor B2B Segmentation Drains Profits:

What is the largest barrier to successfully implementing company goals?

Why Bad Strategy Happens to Good CEOs

Buying Capabilities is easy...

Speed Drives Success

What Strategically will bring your company to the next level?

What are your customers thinking? And what can you do?

Facing Strategic Issues? Decisions on Priorities are Key

7 Minute Leader- A quick overview of a Strategic Check Up

Why Decisions Fail: – #6 It’s Viewed as an Event vs a Process

Why decisions fail? – #5: Stakeholders requirements not considered.

Why decisions fail? – #4: Risks are not considered

Why Decisions Fail- #3: The purpose for a decision is seldom clear.

Why Decisions Fail?: #2 – When faced with a decision we start with alternatives.

Why Decisions Fail? #1: When faced with a crisis we accept the first answer presented.

Why Decisions Fail?- Introduction: Understanding the Process and Avoiding the Pitfalls

Poor decisions destroy a company’s ability to drive performance

Why half of decisions fail?

Why Strategic Transformations Fail. And What CEO’s Can Do to Avoid it.

10 Symptoms that your company needs to unlock a pricing strategy: #10: You Don’t Have a Pricing Strategy

10 Symptoms that your company needs to unlock a pricing strategy: #8: Poor Segmentation

10 Symptoms that your company needs to unlock a pricing strategy: #7: Pricing driven by cost

10 symptoms that your company needs to unlock a pricing strategy: #6: Systematic way of pricing is not uniformly applied by your sales force

10 symptoms that your company needs to unlock a pricing strategy- #5 Reactionary Pricing

10 symptoms that your company needs to unlock a pricing strategy: #4: Losing Volume

10 symptoms that your company needs to unlock a pricing strategy- #3: Inducements in Pricing

10 symptoms that your company needs to unlock a pricing strategy -# 2: No Commodity vs. Differentiation Margin Gap

10 symptoms that your company needs to unlock a pricing strategy- #1: Margin erosion

10 symptoms that your company needs to unlock its pricing strategy

6 Critical Criteria to Evaluate and Test Your Strategic Vision

Results through Role Clarity

Everybody is the President of Something – Aligning your people for performance and accountability

Mind based competition: building the golden bridge to china

Mining for EBITDA

Changing the game

Organizational Scarring – Too Many Strategic Initiatives

Maintaining Competitiveness and Margins in Tender Markets

How to drive global growth and predictable earnings

The Power of Competitive Advantage

Ambiguity in Goals Handcuffs Business Performance

Seize Control of Your Business Performance: The Path to Simple Process Management

10 Symptoms that your company needs to unlock a pricing strategy: #9: One Size Fits All Pricing- why it doesn’t work

Competitive Decision-Making

Strategy is nothing without execution

LEADERSHIP ALIGNMENT: A Simple Test

Quality decision making is the ultimate purpose of an executive and manager

Entering New Markets: Timing Horizons for Emerging Markets

Stop Reacting to Results and Learn to Manage Performance

When you believe “there is a market there”, first test your assumptions- then enter

Strategic and Operational Decisions on Entering a “fast growing market”

Entering emerging and early stage markets- why strategic assumptions matter

New Market Entry Requires Specific Capabilities to Succeed (Read which specifically here)

What is New Market Entry and how do companies win?

Video Added to introduce Thinking Dimensions

The Economic Value of a Happy Workforce (Hint: 15.5%)

The P&L impact of understanding your competitive advantage

Managing Competitiveness Through Product Development

Implementing process to increase your (verified) competitive advantage

LeisureEurope Case Study: In entering a new market, first decide “where to compete “, then “how to compete”.

Align your Executive Team to How the Five Forces Impact Competitive Advantage (i.e. Profitability)

Create a True Competitive Advantage to Grow

Is your competitive advantage still valid?

Is your competitive advantage working to generate better returns? Step 1: Know your competitive advantage.

Incremental Profitability through Pricing

Measuring Progress Throughout the Year

Simplify the Path to Process Performance Management

Improving Profitability through process

Why Acquire at all?

Pricing strategy for B2B – getting the data you need to make effective decisions

You know your strategy is working when your company can say NO to things and know WHY?

The Key Importance of making Strategic Assumptions visible early in the M&A process

The Truth about Strategic Assumptions – How they Forge a Stronger Strategy

How to Find Profit in Your Underperforming Business

Are Your Business Processes Creating Value?

Can a clear market entry strategy plan make the difference?

There are Only Two Doors to Look Behind to Find New Avenues of Growth

Value Based Pricing- First you must understand your customers

Are you investing in capabilities to make it easier for customers to work with you?

3 quick questions to consider on Strategic Partnerships

Challenges in Pricing B2B

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