by Jamie Notter | Aug 28, 2009 | Strategy
Fellow Gen Xer David Gammel had a brief chat the other day on Twitter reminiscing about making "mix tapes." For you younger folks, this was a process where we would go through our record or CD collection, pick some of our favorite songs and then record them,...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 28, 2009 | Strategy
Fellow Gen Xer David Gammel had a brief chat the other day on Twitter reminiscing about making "mix tapes." For you younger folks, this was a process where we would go through our record or CD collection, pick some of our favorite songs and then record them,...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 10, 2009 | Strategy
Thanks to Eric Brown, I discovered this blog post from Umair Haque that talks about the difference between thick value and thin value. With the economy the way it is and stories of failed business executives getting big bonuses, there evolved a conversation about...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 7, 2009 | Strategy
Thanks to Ann Oliveri for pointing me to an article that McKinsey put out on "Strategy in a Structural Break." The author is from UCLA and provided a fresh perspective to some of the other stuff I see on strategy (one of which pointed out that spring is...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 3, 2009 | Strategy
Last year I wrote a post titled "Consultants Suck." In it, I made reference to a strategy weekend I did for an association client. It wasn't a full-blown strategic plan (those of you who know me understand I wouldn't do that!). It was a weekend of...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 30, 2009 | Strategy
Eric Brown pointed me to a nice piece by Ed Burrows in Harvard Management Update on the Four Fatal Flaws of Strategic Planning. No, I'm not going to open up the dead or alive debate again. That debate doesn't seem to push the learning any further. But...
