Every Day is a Strategy Day
Practical ideas to help you use strategy in everyday life, lead with more intention, and grow on your terms
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Your team is much smarter than you let them be (opens the original)
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Welcome to Every Day is a Strategy Day, where I make strategy personal, practical and just a little provocative.I reckon we’re only scratching the surface of the potential of the people we work with.You might read this and think, Tell me something new, David!Fair point. But ask yourself whether it’s actually true in your team.Look around you: how much more could you get from your team with the right encouragement?A lot of the way we still manage people has its roots in the industrial age. We put
What it takes to overcome the inertia of the status quo (opens the original)
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Welcome to Every Day is a Strategy Day, where I make strategy personal, practical and just a little provocative.I remember that meeting with the new chairman like it was yesterday. He’d asked several executives to explain why they sold their product in the way they did. He approached the conversation from first principles, asking incisive questions about how the system worked and why it had developed in that particular way. He was relentlessly curious.You’d think the executives would be able to
When your boss makes you doubt yourself (opens the original)
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Welcome to Every Day is a Strategy Day, where I make strategy personal, practical and just a little provocative.The 15-minute conversationI remember this one conversation with a former boss. I had asked for 30 minutes to discuss my future. I had prepared carefully what I wanted to say and ask.It didn’t start well. I sat there in front of him, like a schoolboy in front of the headmaster, waiting for him to finish an email. It was clearly a power play on his part.When he looked up, I could tell hi
What happens when you become someone else for a day? (opens the original)
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Welcome to Every Day is a Strategy Day, where I make strategy personal, practical, and just a little provocative.Entering another worldLast Friday, I spent the afternoon at the HYPER JAPAN festival in London with my family.I expected Japanese food, music and culture, similar to other country-based festivals we’d been to at Olympia. I wasn’t prepared for hundreds of people dressed as characters from anime, films and games - cosplay, as it’s called. It was quite a sight!I was bemused at first. Why
Is good design part of the thinking? (opens the original)
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When it comes to a book, is design an integral part of the work or more like lipstick on a pig?That’s a question I’ve been mulling over as I read lots of business books. And consider my first book.I want people to read it, of course. But that’s not enough. I want them to use my book as a guide to living more intentionally, helping them move from feeling their drift to living a life on their terms. I’m more than aware that the business book market, as a whole, is struggling. Why read several hund
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