The concept of presence of mind, as a tool for strategy, comes from one of the original writers on that subject: the Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz. In his classic book On War, published in 1832 ...

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2022 issue of strategy+business. We’ve been thinking a lot about teams lately. As more companies release formal policies around hybrid and remote work, ...

With an introduction by Ram Charan. The heart of a company’s business model should be game-changing innovation. This is not just the invention of new products and services, but the ability to ...

In the early 1990s, a young Mademoiselle editor named Kate Brosnahan and her soon-to-be-husband, Andy Spade, launched a company they called Kate Spade Handbags. Like most startups, this one didn’t ...

The last few years have brought real change. Balance sheets today have significantly more nontangible assets—intellectual property and digital capability, for example—than ever before. And a series of ...

Everybody knows that big corporations, by nature, maneuver like battleships. Held back by their own inertia and current business strategies, they cannot turn quickly when the competitive environment ...

McDonald has dedicated his career to exploring innovation-related challenges and their solutions. His early research on startups drew the attention of Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, who became a ...

The short answer: enable your people to adapt to change. When you can’t tell your leadership team and employees what to prepare for, you have to show them how to be prepared for anything. In 2022, ...

In an increasingly digital world, data is a key asset for companies, allowing organizations to understand their own — and their consumers’ — behaviors in novel and more complete ways. The downside, of ...

Photograph courtesy of Katjes Fassin UK Ltd. This interview is part of the Inside the Mind of the CxO series, which explores a wide range of critical decisions faced by chief executives around the ...

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General Electric Company’s former CEO Jack Welch is among the most vocal and articulate advocates of performance management systems that force turnover of the lowest-performing employees each year. At ...