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]...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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