Insights

Insights

The right insight can sharpen judgment, reveal hidden patterns, and turn uncertainty into a clearer path forward. This collection brings together ideas that help you see more broadly, think more critically, and make decisions with greater confidence and perspective. Expect articles that surface what matters, connect the dots across complex situations, and help you move from information overload to meaningful action. Read this category when you want better clarity, better choices, and better outcomes.

Trust, but Set Expectations

Trust without clear expectations fails, as one sod disaster proves.

Improving US Healthcare

Healthcare is one-fifth of the US economy, fragmented, complex and ripe for reform.

More GEM, Less FEAR

America needs more generosity, enterprise and plurality, and less fear.

Healthcare M&A Investment Theses

Bain's analysis of 435 billion dollars in healthcare deals reveals three revenue theses.

Rework's Rules for Builders

Eleven iconoclastic lessons from Rework that still discipline how businesses get built.

The Rise of Global Challengers

BCG's challengers grow revenue at triple the market with superior margins.

How to Make Good Surveys

Well-crafted surveys create apolitical data cheaply, if you design them with discipline.

Five Excel Skills That Matter

Master five core Excel skills and you cover 80 percent of daily analysis.

Be Likeable, Be Yourself

Likeability opens doors that competence alone cannot, and authenticity powers it.

How Innovators Actually Innovate

Innovation leaders cast wide nets, exploit free sources and coordinate their bets.

The Danger of Averages

Averages flatten reality; the second and third questions reveal what matters.

Great Consultants Versus Good Ones

Good consultants execute reliably; great ones add judgment, coaching and business acumen.