Category: Strategy+Businesss

Many companies launch transformations without understanding their own organizational culture or whether that culture will support the new strategic direction. To avoid this mistake, companies

Daniel Akst reads The Comfort Letter, by Arthur R.G. Solmssen, a 1975 novel about a lawyer, an empire builder, and a debt offering that sheds

The turmoil, technological change, and disruption the world is experiencing today have echoes of the great societal transformation of the period between 1890 and 1920.

Effective leaders know that long-term corporate success requires a strong organizational culture that is well aligned with purpose and strategy, and yet cultural barriers are

Many corporate purpose statements are poorly constructed, vague, and don’t bear much relationship to what a company does. Sally Blount and Paul Leinwand advise leaders

Purpose statements have had their day, argues Adam Bryant. Business leaders should be issuing data-driven impact statements that prove they are delivering on their company’s