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.

Mastering Executive Status Reports

Executive report-outs run on expectations, and preparation decides whether they build trust.

Olympic Medals by Productivity

Alternative metrics crown surprising winners once medal counts meet denominators.

A User Manual for Healthcare

The Health Care Handbook maps the sprawling US healthcare system into learnable buckets.

BCG Tackles Loose Dogs

A Boston Consulting Group pro bono deck reveals consulting craft fundamentals

Learning From Global Taxes

A Fine Mess asks why Americans spend 30 hours on what takes the Dutch 15 minutes.

Winter Reading Economist Insights

Covid-19, Chinese retail, 5G auctions, infrastructure spending and cheap money shaped early 2021.

Strategy: Poker Not Chess

Imperfect information, luck and bluffing make poker the better analogy for strategy.

Data Visualization From The Economist

Simple, informative charts from The Economist model effective data communication.

Digitization Drives Schumpeterian Change

Digitization boosts profits and wages but rewards only the prepared industries.

Twelve Forces Reshaping Banking

Organizing forty pages of banking trends into one cause-and-effect skeleton.

Your Strategy for McDonald's

Teamwork, scoping and storytelling produce presentations that persuade executives.

Corporate Training Usefulness Questioned

Companies spend billions on training yet most learning never reaches the job. Disciplined design changes that.