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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
What's Our Deal?	2007
Are We In This Together? The Preconditions For Strategy	2007
Accountability: Effective Managers Go First (published on ChangeThis.com)	2006
The One-Firm Firm Revisited	2006
Managing the Multidimensional Organization	2006
Strategy Means Saying "No"	2006
Are Law Firms Manageable?	2006
It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Much You Want It	2006
Strategy and the Fat Smoker (published on ChangeThis.com)	2005
Geographic Expansion Strategies	2005
The Anatomy of a Consulting Firm	2004
The Key to Merger Integration: Managers Who Can Manage	2002
The Courage to Manage	2001
The Problem of Standards	2001
Results and Rewards in the Multi-Group Firm	1994
Charting Your Course	1986
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Blog posts in Strategy
Title	Date
The indecisive employee	2008-04-30
Recession Responses	2008-03-07
Book Review - JUST ENOUGH ANXIETY	2008-02-28
The One-Firm Firm Marches On	2008-02-11
Compensation Systems	2008-01-25
Focus and Diversification	2008-01-21
Strategy and The Fat Smoker - New podcast episode available now	2008-01-16
Ruthlessness and Charity	2008-01-02
Another reader question	2007-11-14
How Much Standardization?	2007-09-12
Warlords and Civil Society	2007-08-21
Making Mergers Work	2007-08-06
Blawgworld 2007	2007-07-30
Governement Operations as Professional Service Organizations	2007-07-20
Living by the Principles	2007-07-10
Sales Commissions	2007-06-21
Who or What is the Firm For?	2007-05-10
Happiness is Relative	2007-05-09
What's Our Deal?	2007-04-26
Good to Good	2007-04-20
Making The Network Work	2007-04-05
The Long Term	2007-04-03
Is Stewardship Dead?	2007-03-22
Do My Ideas Work?	2007-03-15
Strategy as Portfolio Management	2007-03-13
We Don't work for Jerks	2007-03-09
Lions, Wolves, Beavers and Humans	2007-02-20
A Case Study In professional Ethics	2007-02-15
Pricing and Promoting a PreSchool Business	2007-02-08
Stylists	2007-01-31
Non-Financial Currencies	2007-01-18
A Home Fit For Heroes?	2007-01-16
What a Company Needs Most	2007-01-12
Immigration and Strategy	2007-01-09
Passing It On	2007-01-04
Rights and Obligations	2006-12-15
The Size and Growth Impulse	2006-12-12
What's A Professional Firm?	2006-12-08
Partner Compensation in a Start-Up	2006-11-27
Marines and Mercenaries	2006-11-01
How to Pay professional Employees	2006-10-31
Guns for Hire	2006-10-25
What Do Consultants Know?	2006-10-24
Nothing New Under the Sun	2006-10-22
Last Podcast Episode on Strategy	2006-10-17
Employer Value Proposition	2006-10-11
How Did You Lose Your Innocence?	2006-10-10
Managing the Multidimensional Firm	2006-10-02
Blawg Review #76	2006-09-24
Help Me With My Strategy Please	2006-09-13
Corporate Strategy and Personal Profiles	2006-08-25
Two Entrepreneurs	2006-08-23
"The One-Firm Firm" - new free seminar	2006-08-21
The Trusted Brain Surgeon Advisor	2006-08-17
Innovation in the Practice of Law	2006-08-16
"Values in Action" - new free seminar	2006-08-14
How We Really Make Decisions	2006-08-11
New Strategy Podcast Episode: "Strategy Means Saying No"	2006-08-08
New Business Strategy Podcast Episode: "Practice What You Preach"	2006-07-31
The Mutidimensional Organization	2006-07-30
Strategy Podcast Series	2006-07-24
What IF There's No Final Whistle?	2006-07-20
The High Priest's Catechism	2006-07-19
Work and LifeStyle Balance - Can a firm Give Options?	2006-07-18
Does the Network Work?	2006-07-14
Innovating by Standing Still	2006-07-12
Alignment and Accountability	2006-06-27
Central European and Australian Interviews	2006-06-23
How to Keep Your Resolve	2006-06-22
Minnow or Whale?	2006-06-20
Service Line Diversification	2006-06-15
The Battle for Marketing	2006-06-13
Strategy, Scarcity and Rewards	2006-06-06
Disclosing People's Pay	2006-06-02
What Killed Andersen?	2006-06-01
The Power of Principles	2006-05-31
Keeping the Kids	2006-05-27
Creating a High-Trust Organization	2006-05-24
Can You Say No?	2006-05-23
Sinning Gurus	2006-05-18
Number of RSS Feeds	2006-05-17
What Does Client-Centricity Really Mean?	2006-05-15
Are You Being Mentored?	2006-05-13
Re-engineering a Professional Business	2006-05-03
Goldman's Secret	2006-05-01
Spa Wisdom	2006-04-27
Don't Measure, Judge!	2006-04-25
Does Your Organization Add Any Value? How Do You Know?	2006-04-21
The Branded Free Agent Hub	2006-04-20
False Economies	2006-04-14
Can the Good Guys Win?	2006-04-13
Welcome to the Real World. Figure it Out Yourself!	2006-04-12
Who Likes You? And Who Doesn't?	2006-04-06
Stop Paying for Performance	2006-04-03
Are Law Firms Manageable?	2006-03-29
Should PSFs do CSR?	2006-03-23
The Shoemaker's Children	2006-03-20
Whatever Happened to Quality?	2006-03-17
Running Fast to Stay in Place	2006-03-13
Creating A New Religion	2006-03-07
How's Your Mood?	2006-02-28
What Does it Take to be Truly Great?	2006-02-19
Partnerships and Equity Shares	2006-02-16
Internal Blogs as a Management Tool	2006-02-04
LLP	2006-01-26
Warlords and Dickensian Factory Owners	2006-01-23
The Best Places in the USA to Work	2006-01-18
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Podcasts in Strategy
Title	Date
Strategy and the Fat Smoker	2008-01-02
The Fat Smoker	2007-04-16
Survey Results	2007-04-09
Strategy is Standards	2007-04-02
Profit Formula	2007-03-26
The Courage to Manage	2006-10-16
Ready, Set, Go: Fast-track Strategy	2006-10-09
Competing through Organizational Functioning	2006-10-02
More Things in More Places	2006-09-25
Why Merge?	2006-09-18
Adapting to the Future - Whatever It Is...	2006-09-11
Justifying the Company	2006-09-04
Play Nice - Creating the Collaborative Firm	2006-08-28
The One Firm Firm	2006-08-21
Values in Action	2006-08-14
Strategy Means Saying No	2006-08-07
Practice What You Preach	2006-07-31
Strategy and the Fat Smoker	2006-07-24
How to Create A Strategy	2006-07-16
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