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Strategy is tough, because it’s not about what an organization aims for, dreams about or hopes to achieve. It’s not even about your strengths and weaknesses. Rather, it’s about what you have the resolve, determination and drive to stick to.

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Title	Date
Articles in Strategy
Are We In This Together? The Preconditions For Strategy	2007
What’s Our Deal?	2007
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Much You Want It	2006
Are Law Firms Manageable?	2006
Strategy Means Saying “No”	2006
Managing the Multidimensional Organization	2006
The One-Firm Firm Revisited	2006
Accountability: Effective Managers Go First (published on ChangeThis.com)	2006
Geographic Expansion Strategies	2005
Strategy and the Fat Smoker (published on ChangeThis.com)	2005
The Key to Merger Integration: Managers Who Can Manage	2002
The Problem of Standards	2001
The Courage to Manage	2001
Results and Rewards in the Multi-Group Firm	1994
Charting Your Course	1986
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Posts in Strategy
Title	Date
The indecisive employee	April 30, 2008
Recession Responses	March 7, 2008
Book Review – JUST ENOUGH ANXIETY	February 28, 2008
The One-Firm Firm Marches On	February 11, 2008
Compensation Systems	January 25, 2008
Focus and Diversification	January 21, 2008
Strategy and The Fat Smoker – New podcast episode available now	January 16, 2008
Ruthlessness and Charity	January 2, 2008
Another reader question	November 14, 2007
How Much Standardization?	September 12, 2007
Warlords and Civil Society	August 22, 2007
Making Mergers Work	August 6, 2007
Blawgworld 2007	July 30, 2007
Governement Operations as Professional Service Organizations	July 20, 2007
Living by the Principles	July 10, 2007
Who or What is the Firm For?	May 10, 2007
What’s Our Deal?	April 26, 2007
Good to Good	April 20, 2007
Making The Network Work	April 5, 2007
The Long Term	April 3, 2007
Is Stewardship Dead?	March 22, 2007
Do My Ideas Work?	March 15, 2007
Strategy as Portfolio Management	March 13, 2007
We Don’t work for Jerks	March 9, 2007
Lions, Wolves, Beavers and Humans	February 20, 2007
A Case Study In professional Ethics	February 15, 2007
Pricing and Promoting a PreSchool Business	February 8, 2007
Stylists	January 31, 2007
A Home Fit For Heroes?	January 16, 2007
What a Company Needs Most	January 12, 2007
Immigration and Strategy	January 9, 2007
Passing It On	January 4, 2007
Rights and Obligations	December 15, 2006
The Size and Growth Impulse	December 12, 2006
What’s A Professional Firm?	December 8, 2006
Marines and Mercenaries	November 1, 2006
Guns for Hire	October 25, 2006
What Do Consultants Know?	October 24, 2006
Nothing New Under the Sun	October 22, 2006
Last Podcast Episode on Strategy	October 17, 2006
Employer Value Proposition	October 11, 2006
How Did You Lose Your Innocence?	October 10, 2006
Managing the Multidimensional Firm	October 2, 2006
Blawg Review #76	September 24, 2006
Help Me With My Strategy Please	September 13, 2006
Corporate Strategy and Personal Profiles	August 25, 2006
Two Entrepreneurs	August 23, 2006
“The One-Firm Firm” – new free seminar	August 21, 2006
The Trusted Brain Surgeon Advisor	August 17, 2006
Innovation in the Practice of Law	August 16, 2006
“Values in Action” – new free seminar	August 14, 2006
How We Really Make Decisions	August 11, 2006
New Strategy Podcast Episode: “Strategy Means Saying No”	August 8, 2006
New Business Strategy Podcast Episode: “Practice What You Preach”	July 31, 2006
The Mutidimensional Organization	July 30, 2006
Strategy Podcast Series	July 24, 2006
What IF There’s No Final Whistle?	July 20, 2006
The High Priest’s Catechism	July 19, 2006
Work and LifeStyle Balance – Can a firm Give Options?	July 18, 2006
Does the Network Work?	July 14, 2006
Innovating by Standing Still	July 12, 2006
Alignment and Accountability	June 27, 2006
Central European and Australian Interviews	June 23, 2006
How to Keep Your Resolve	June 22, 2006
Minnow or Whale?	June 20, 2006
Service Line Diversification	June 15, 2006
The Battle for Marketing	June 13, 2006
Strategy, Scarcity and Rewards	June 6, 2006
What Killed Andersen?	June 1, 2006
The Power of Principles	May 31, 2006
Keeping the Kids	May 27, 2006
Creating a High-Trust Organization	May 24, 2006
Can You Say No?	May 23, 2006
Sinning Gurus	May 18, 2006
Number of RSS Feeds	May 17, 2006
What Does Client-Centricity Really Mean?	May 15, 2006
Are You Being Mentored?	May 13, 2006
Re-engineering a Professional Business	May 3, 2006
Goldman’s Secret	May 1, 2006
Spa Wisdom	April 27, 2006
Don’t Measure, Judge!	April 25, 2006
Does Your Organization Add Any Value? How Do You Know?	April 21, 2006
The Branded Free Agent Hub	April 20, 2006
False Economies	April 14, 2006
Can the Good Guys Win?	April 13, 2006
Welcome to the Real World. Figure it Out Yourself!	April 12, 2006
Who Likes You? And Who Doesn’t?	April 6, 2006
Are Law Firms Manageable?	March 29, 2006
Should PSFs do CSR?	March 23, 2006
The Shoemaker’s Children	March 20, 2006
Whatever Happened to Quality?	March 17, 2006
Running Fast to Stay in Place	March 13, 2006
Creating A New Religion	March 7, 2006
How’s Your Mood?	February 28, 2006
What Does it Take to be Truly Great?	February 19, 2006
Partnerships and Equity Shares	February 16, 2006
Internal Blogs as a Management Tool	February 4, 2006
LLP	January 26, 2006
Warlords and Dickensian Factory Owners	January 23, 2006
The Best Places in the USA to Work	January 18, 2006
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Podcasts in Strategy
Title	Date
Strategy and the Fat Smoker	January 2, 2008
The Fat Smoker	April 16, 2007
Survey Results	April 9, 2007
Strategy is Standards	April 2, 2007
Profit Formula	March 26, 2007
The Courage to Manage	October 16, 2006
Ready, Set, Go: Fast-track Strategy	October 9, 2006
Competing through Organizational Functioning	October 2, 2006
More Things in More Places	September 25, 2006
Why Merge?	September 18, 2006
Adapting to the Future – Whatever It Is…	September 11, 2006
Justifying the Company	September 4, 2006
Play Nice – Creating the Collaborative Firm	August 28, 2006
The One Firm Firm	August 21, 2006
Values in Action	August 14, 2006
Strategy Means Saying No	August 7, 2006
Practice What You Preach	July 31, 2006
Strategy and the Fat Smoker	July 24, 2006
How to Create A Strategy	July 16, 2006
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