The final post in our four-part Scenario Planning Series  As I write this post, the U.S., where I’m from and work on a near-weekly basis,...

How to keep on course when everything’s fighting for your attention  Watching the U.S. Open earlier this month, I was struck, again and...

How seeking new knowledge, experiences makes you a better leader Reddit has become my go-to social media platform, and one of my go-to...

How to build an inventive culture that seeds and feeds new ideas, fostering innovation Raise your hand if your company wants to be more...

Stretch Goals Keep You Ahead of the Curve Disruption is one of the great buzzwords of our accelerated digital era.  It seems like...

When we ask our clients what their company’s goals are, very often, they don’t know.  This is typically true at all levels of the...

WHAT WE'VE LEARNED THROUGH OUR GROWING PAINS For a long time, I was basically a plumber.  I had a stable, relatively small group of...

What’s Your Change Management Style? Change may be the only constant these days, but it’s not enough to simply say leaders must be able...

Design & Execute Your Best Strategic Thinking Session Ever It’s go time! You’ve done your pre-planning and preparation . Your...

Customer Interviews are Strategy Goldmines One of the greatest risks of strategy work is myopia. It makes sense. For most companies, it’s...

The Three Stages of Results-Driven Strategy Creation I have a slide I’ve used for more than 30 years. My team calls it the “cloud model”...

Leverage Your Company’s Small Size for Huge Talent Advantages Part 2 in WhiteWater’s Small to Medium-Sized Business Success Series. Big...

Strategy Future-Proofs Your Small to Medium-Sized Business Part 1 in WhiteWater’s Small to Medium-Size Business Success Series. Small...

What is Strategy Canvas? The strategy canvas was developed by Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors of strategy at INSEAD business...

The Strategy Canvas: Ditch Strategic “Planning” for Strategic “Thinking” The strategy canvas  is a powerful strategic planning tool  that...

Stretch Goals Make the Impossible Happen In January, many of us set goals for ourselves in the form of New Year’s resolutions. Most are...

Execution Drives Your Strategy To Results I recently led a session for a thriving, mid-sized company based in the midwest. On the...

You Need a Solid Strategy for the ‘Next Normal’ “I wish my dad had done this ten years ago.” I was packing up at the end of a strategy...

Critical Challenge: Empowering Leaders to Execute. (as found in the latest edition of Navigating WhiteWater) As I reflect on the role of...

Keeper of the Values One afternoon, my two young children were out in the front yard, playing a game of pickup soccer with a couple of...