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The Business Model Canvas: A One-Page Guide to Seeing Your Business Whole
Most executives can describe their product in a sentence and their org chart in a paragraph, yet struggle to explain how the pieces of their business actually connect to create and capture value. That gap is exactly what the Business Model Canvas was built to close. Developed by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur out of Osterwalder's earlier doctoral research (Osterwalder, 2004) and popularized in their 2010 book Business Model Generation (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010), th
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The Business Model Canvas: A One-Page Guide to Seeing Your Business Whole
Most executives can describe their product in a sentence and their org chart in a paragraph, yet struggle to explain how the pieces of their business actually connect to create and capture value. That gap is exactly what the Business Model Canvas was built to close. Developed by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur out of Osterwalder's earlier doctoral research (Osterwalder, 2004) and popularized in their 2010 book Business Model Generation (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010), th
3 days ago6 min read
Before You Solve It, Diagnose It: The Cynefin Framework for Leaders
Picture a fairly typical AI rollout. A management team spends the better part of a year on it: a long vendor bake-off, a training curriculum, a launch date with a return-on-investment target attached. Three months in, usage numbers are flat, and it turns out a handful of people have already moved on to a different tool nobody approved, because it just worked better for what they actually needed. Leadership can't quite explain it. The plan was sound. The execution was sound. A
3 days ago5 min read
What Two Hundred and Fifty Years of America Can Teach Us About Building Something That Lasts
This week the United States turns two hundred and fifty years old. The Declaration of Independence was adopted in the summer of 1776, and so this Fourth of July marks the semiquincentennial, the two hundred and fiftieth year of the American experiment. Two hundred and fifty years is a long time to hold an idea together, and as families gather and fireworks trace the sky, that span deserves more than ceremony. It also deserves a closer look, because this anniversary offers a b
Jun 2911 min read
The Pre-Mortem, Accelerated: Using AI to Kill Your Plan Before It Kills You
Most executives know the pre-mortem. Very few use it. The concept, developed by psychologist Gary Klein and popularized in organizational strategy circles by Daniel Kahneman, is disarmingly simple. Before committing to a major decision, you imagine it is twelve months in the future and the initiative has failed catastrophically. You then work backward to explain what went wrong. The exercise forces a team to surface its private doubts, challenge its shared assumptions, and co
Jun 124 min read
The 2026 Mid-Year Economic Outlook
Six months ago, I published a ranked matrix of the ten issues most likely to shape the business environment in 2026. This mid-year update recalibrates that ranking against hard data: the IMF's April World Economic Outlook, the April CPI release, current markets, and post-SCOTUS tariff reality. The numbers have moved. More importantly, the pattern beneath them has sharpened. Let me give you the headline figures, then tell you what they actually mean for how you run your organi
Jun 54 min read
When Your AI Vendor Becomes a Risk: A Plain-English Guide to Protecting Your Intellectual Work
Most executives and coaches who use AI tools think of their conversation history as something like a search history: transient, forgettable, and replaceable. That assumption is worth revisiting. Over the past year, many of us have done something more significant inside AI platforms than simple lookups. We have worked through complex coaching frameworks, drafted nuanced client communications, developed proprietary methodologies, refined our voice and reasoning across hundreds
May 276 min read
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