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“A good strategy honestly acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcoming them.” — Richard P. Rumelt “Good Strategy, Bad Strategy” is a business book written by Richard P. Rumelt, a renowned strategy scholar. The book explores the concept of strategy and differentiates between effective, “good” strategies and ineffective, “bad” strategies commonly …
“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.” – Thomas Sowell If you’re a leader that wants to change the world, you need to understand how the world works. Economies, among other things, are part of what makes the world go round. Markets matter as they reflect …
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” — Sun Tzu Some say Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, taught the elephant how to dance. Microsoft is the elephant here. Microsoft is a mega company. You just don’t do that. Well, Satya did. He did what …
“Get your facts first. Then you can distort them as you please.” — Mark Twain I learned a lot about business cases over the years, simply by working in the space of enterprise strategy and digital transformation. I want so share what I learned at Microsoft about building business cases for the Cloud to help …
“What is coming is better than what is gone.” — Arabic Proverb Here’s an example of a vision memo I wrote to try and paint the vision and idea of business evangelism at Microsoft as a way to accelerate and de-risk Digital Transformation. Well, it’s really focused on the idea of building the business innovation …
