The Ultimate Strategy Is “be good” a part of your 2021 strategy? If not, you should reconsider. When I was in business school, we learned that companies exist to do one thing: maximize shareholder value. At Outthinker, we’ve been talking for years about how this belief has become defunct. Companies are realizing that focusing solely […]
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We are dealing with unprecedented change invoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. What we need more than ever is a sense of hope. So, we’ve taken The Outthinker Process – a strategic process that helps business leaders step outside of conventional thinking to redesign their business models and strategies – and reformed it specifically for what
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In March, as the reality of COVID-19 started taking hold, when my team received our fifth request in one day to postpone a keynote speech and my calendar was suddenly, unexpectedly, free for months, we sat down to discuss what to do. We figured that (a) other business thought-leaders are similarly, suddenly free and (b)
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As I write this, I’m resting in an elegant second-floor hotel lobby overlooking the cobblestone streets of a pedestrian shopping district in Dublin, Ireland. Over the past 48 hours, I’ve delivered nine hours of speeches and workshops, conducted three podcasts and radio show interviews, and come to appreciate the remarkable advances Northern Europe has made
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It was a magical moment. Not just because I was with my wife and three children, nor that we were at a Parisian café with a view of the Eiffel tower, nor even because after a week of rain Paris decided to give us – on our one day in the city – perfect blue
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If my family ever reads this blog, please know that I love you dearly and I carefully memorize each cherished moment I spend with you. And yet, this morning, silent in my hotel room outside of suburban Philadelphia, commuters’ headlights floating slowly across wet streets, I feel complete and alone. You see, it’s been a
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At a breakfast last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Iris Nafshi, Campbell Soup’s head of learning and development and former head of leadership development for Microsoft, about unlocking intrapreneurship in your organization. One of the things Iris shared is that if I really want to understand intrapreneurship, I should look up Chitra
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These magical days are slipping by so quickly. I’ve been in the heart of coffee country in Pereira, Colombia, for two weeks. I’m settling down by the pool, my heart just now slowing from a rigorous tennis lesson after a full day assembling my next keynote speech: Change the World without Quitting your Job. Long
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