Interview with Jon Pittman

Interview with Jon Pittman

Nathan/ You have a different approach to strategy from most traditional strategists, partly because you’ve said, before, that it’s broken. How do you fix it, either how it’s taught or how it’s practiced? Jon Pittman/ I built our process [at Autodesk]...
Interview with Carl Bass

Interview with Carl Bass

Nathan/ Your experience with strategy is different than most businesspeople—it’s unapologetically skeptical, if not, dismissive of traditional approaches to strategy.  Carl/ Yes. In business, there is a huge number of people claiming things to be strategic that...
Strategy is in Crisis (presentation)

Strategy is in Crisis (presentation)

I was kindly invited by Danil Kislinsky to present to his impressive Go Global community about why business strategy needs to be completely rethought. This is the current focus on my professional work.
Should Corporations Go To Jail?

Should Corporations Go To Jail?

Whenever the subject of whether or not corporations are people comes-up in conversation, the most likely answer is “No! Are you kidding?” The conversation inevitably winds around to why corporations have rights that US citizens do not (they do, by the way) and if...
It’s Not Silicon Valley Anymore

It’s Not Silicon Valley Anymore

One of the things I’m most thankful to my parents for* is growing-up in Silicon Valley. To me, that means “a place where starting your own business wasn’t mythology, it was what the neighbors did.” When I started my first company with friends, back in 1989, in my last...
All Your Customers Are Belong To Us

All Your Customers Are Belong To Us

The greatest threat to business, is business, itself — specifically a handful of companies that can control access to nearly all customers. In most of the pre-Web days (B.W.), some companies controlled their own business and brands — certainly in the B2B space and the...