Critical to the success of every organization, strategy is not a long planning exercise or document. Strategy can be simple, fun and effective and is founded on a set of five interrelated and powerful choices that positions an organization to win.

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Playing To win
At best, Management Models help managers make better choices faster, without having to go back to first principles to build their decisions from the ground up. However, at their worst, they perpetuate the making of bad decisions. That is why when it comes to Management Models, quality is key.

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A New Way to Think

Integrative thinking is a form of reasoning which allows you to constructively face the tensions of opposing models. Instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, you generate a creative solution. Your solution contains elements of the individual models, but is superior to each.

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Creating Great Choices

Organizations need to incorporate the best of design thinking into their ways of working to unleash innovation and creativity. An organization will be able to counter-balance analytical thinking with intuitive thinking – to enable it to both exploit existing knowledge and create new knowledge. 

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The Design Of Business

While prevailing theory holds that stock-based compensation perfectly aligns corporate executives’ incentives with those of shareholders, it does the opposite. As a consequence, executives have done brilliantly while shareholders have become increasingly frustrated. Incentives and governance practice needs to be transformed to enable corporations to prosper in a way that better serves society.

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Fixing the Game

The combination of the stagnation of medium incomes and the rapid rise of high incomes is threatening the future of democratic capitalism. Its predictive future requires building a more robust knowledge, transactional and physical infrastructure for broadly shared prosperity.

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When More is Not Better

For both social entrepreneurs and corporations, the key tenet of social innovation is finding ways to make the world a better place. My work focuses on building tools for social entrepreneurs to create more powerful models for creating value for society and developing models to guide corporations on a path of productive corporate citizenship.

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Getting Beyond Better

News & Events

News & Events

Fixing the Game in the News

Dec 03, 2011

On Sunday, December 4th, I’ll be appearing on Fox & Friends on Fox News Channel to talk about Fixing the Game. I’ll be on at 7:45, so tune in early!

In other news, I’m delighted to share that Fixing the Game has already made two year-end best book lists. It was featured on Strategy + Business magazine’s Best Business Books of 2011 list, and Australia Financial Review included it in their list of Best Brainfood of 2011.

And last but not least, I wanted to point out this review of Fixingby Steve Denning at Forbes.com. Steve does an oustanding job of articulating the main themes of the book and offers his own thoughtful perspective. It’s a great read.

Watch "A Plan is Not a Strategy" from Harvard Business Review