For many companies—both startups and incumbents—the panacea of strategy is to create an entirely new market without competition. This idea of strategy is the core of Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne’s Blue Ocean Strategy (2005). With over 4 million copies sold, it is one of the most popular strategy texts today. And given that their recent…
We live in a time of abundance. Abundance of choices, abundance of stuff, abundance of opportunities, abundance of aspirations, abundance of technologies, and above all, abundance of data and information. There is just so much coming on our path that we have no idea anymore what to pay attention to and which choices to make. We…
This week, PwC shared the results of their 22nd Annual Global CEO Survey. As we can already infer from its title, “CEOs’ Curbed Confidence Spells Caution,” a key message of the report is that CEOs’ confidence has dropped significantly compared to last year. This is a bit of a gloomy message. After all, we want our CEOs to…
