Stop Reading Your Slides
Eight tips free presenters from their decks and restore the storytelling.
How Consultants Research Industries
Seven repeatable steps take an analyst from zero to conversant fast.
Visualize What You Mean
Process, stage-gate, org design, sequencing, gap and bucket slides tell the story.
Change Needs Head, Heart, Hands
Logic alone rarely moves an organization; motivation and mechanics must follow.
Implementation Takes Guts
Strategy without implementation is just a shelf ornament. Real change requires courage.
Nudge Theory
Richard Thaler won the economics Nobel for revealing how defaults drive human choices.
How to Diagnose Commercial Underperformance: A Simple Health Check for Executives
Conduct an executive health check to pinpoint structural flaws in pricing governance and sales force deployment.
Company Analysis in One Hour
How to get smart on an unfamiliar company fast, demonstrated with Agilent.
The Death of Expertise
Hubris, noise and filter bubbles erode respect for expertise. Consultants must counter it.
Hypothesis-Based Consulting
Consultants break ambiguous problems by treating answers as suspects to test.
The Consulting Diaspora
Consultants scatter into every industry yet keep a shared language and culture.
What Consultants Actually Do
Consultants help executives decide and change through strategy, culture and operations.