by Adam Asch | Mar 24, 2026 | Blog, Home Page
Here is an uncomfortable hypothesis worth sitting with: most people in your organization don’t actually want their problems solved. Not fully. Not if solving them requires turning on the lights. This isn’t cynicism. It’s pattern recognition. Leaders...
by David Wilsey | Jan 29, 2026 | Blog, Home Page
I get asked the same question a lot lately, sometimes seriously and sometimes with a snicker: “David, are you worried AI will replace strategy consultants like you?” My answer is simple: No. But it will replace bad ones. The Rise of AI in Strategy Work Artificial...
by David Wilsey | Jan 26, 2026 | Blog, Home Page
OKRs can be powerful. They can sharpen focus, improve alignment, and accelerate execution. They can sometimes be very effective. But I’ve also seen organizations rush into OKRs only to discover six months later that nothing meaningful has changed. The dashboards can...
by Terry Sterling | Dec 19, 2025 | Blog, Home Page
Every December, leaders talk about slowing down and every December, they don’t! Instead, many of us end up watching a Christmas movie with one eye on the screen and the other quietly evaluating how the whole thing would fall apart inside our own organizations. This...
by Adam Asch | Oct 14, 2025 | Blog, Home Page
Every leader, whether in government or the private sector, desires efficiency. We discuss it constantly: saving time, cutting costs, reducing waste, optimizing processes. Efficiency has become a near-sacred objective, often explicitly stated in performance dashboards...
