The CEO’s essential checklist: Questions every CEO should be able to answer
A very useful checklist, that I would encourage you to use and check against your strategy and current positioning!
How to Sabotage Your Board
"There are myriad ways that directors and board chairs limit board effectiveness, intentionally and unintentionally. Here are the behaviors to look out for and curtail."
Strategy as a Series of Beliefs
I love this: "I often say that strategy is best analyzed in reflection. Meaning that somehow everything is clearer and simpler when you look back 10 or 20 years to reflect upon what happened. In fact, I often encourage people to do a future look-back when formulating strategy: “imagine it’s ten years from now and your company won in the market — now tell me why.”
15 tips on presenting to a board
A very good article that gets to the heart of presenting to the board!
Microsoft at 50: An AI Giant. A Kinder Culture. And Still Hellbent on Dominating
Microsoft, at 50, continues to grow and outperform - this has not always been the case. Microsoft's transformation from a historically closed, proprietary software company to now a leader in open-source collaboration. This shift has enabled Microsoft to become a dominant force in AI development.