Month: July 2017
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Stupid
Last summer Mats Alvesson and Andre Spicer published a book called “The stupidity paradox”. At a time when let’s face it many of us thought that we were having a summer of stupidity. Spicer and Alvesson’s book is not however about politics, elections or Brexit. It is instead about organisational stupidity at work. They argue…
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The future of strategy is synthesis
Cannes week saw the unveiling of the latest WARC survey on the future of strategy. Of course strategy itself doesn’t change in function. Richard Rumelt usefully defines it as discovering the crucial factors and designing a way to deal with them. Does 2017 change how you do that? If it hasn’t yet it should do.…