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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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Articles in Strategy

Title Date

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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STRATEGY: Articles | Posts

PODCASTS: Managing | Client Relations | Careers | General