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Strategy Accelerator

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Mastering Strategy as a System

Friday, May 9, 2025 -- 8:30 AM Pacific Time

In this lightning lesson, I'm going to focus on building a real-world, action-driven strategy system—starting from a clean sheet. Rather than dropping a complex system on top of an organization, we'll explore how to start simple and grow sophistication over time. Click to Register

Enactive Selling: How to Turn Conversations into Commitment

For the past ten years, I’ve been studying the art of creating advantage — not just in strategy, but in how people think, decide, and act. That journey has taken me deep into the mechanics of how we turn noise into signal, how we interpret those signals into stories that create meaning, and how t...

Oct 16, 2025

The 2 most important steps in strategy (that most CEOs overcomplicate)

I work with CEOs and founders, and the biggest mistake I see is this:They make strategy more complicated than it needs to be. They want to talk competitive advantage, market power, moats… all important, but mostly theoretical—until you nail the two most basic steps: Pick your target customer. ...

Sep 22, 2025

Not One, Not Two: The Radical Art of Connected Leadership

The Beautiful Lie of Being Separate One of humanity's greatest magic tricks is imagining we're all separate beings—like islands floating in empty space, each one complete and alone. This beautiful lie takes the overwhelming truth of how deeply we're all connected and compresses it down to somethi...

Sep 09, 2025

The Strategic Discipline No Executive Wants to Talk About

Most executives are addicted to action. They fear looking idle. They crave motion. They fill meetings, make noise, launch half-baked initiatives—not because it’s right, but because the alternative -- stillness -- feels much more dangerous. But sometimes, the most powerful strategy is to wait. Not...

Aug 03, 2025

From Classic Strategy to Enactive Strategy: A Personal Journey

We delivered the strategy - the charts, the logic, the slidesand nothing changed. When I joined BCG, it was everything I hoped it would be. I was 22, eager, and ready to take on the world of strategy. One of my very first projects had me working for a company that sold reagents—specialized mate...

May 22, 2025

Why Strategy Fades — and What It Takes to Make It Work

After two years, the strategy effort began to fade at the powersports company that was attempting a transformation. What once felt like a rallying cry turned into a background hum. The organization wasn’t resisting the strategy—people simply began drifting back to the comfort of the familiar. Th...

May 16, 2025

Strategy Acceleration: How to Move from Thinking to Doing

Most people treat strategy like a noun.It’s a document.It’s a plan.It’s something you make once a year, print out, and file away until the next offsite. But here’s the shift I want to make: 👉 Strategy isn’t a noun. Strategy is a verb. It’s not what you say.It’s what you do.It lives in choices, ...

May 13, 2025

Busy Isn’t a Badge of Honor. It’s a Warning Sign.

There’s a dangerous myth in business:👉 If you’re busy, you must be winning. But look closer.Ask any founder knee-deep in Slack threads, email replies, Zoom calls, and back-to-back meetings… They’re not moving their business forward.They’re spinning.Reacting.Caught in what looks like momentum—but ...

May 04, 2025

Why 'Play to Win' Doesn’t Work Without This

The Strategic Choice Structuring Process That Turns Good Thinking Into Great Outcomes 🔑 The Big Idea: Most companies think they have a strategy.What they really have is a PowerPoint. You’ve seen it: Bullet-point answers that feel... safe. Polished. Predictable. But great strategy isn’t about fil...

Apr 11, 2025

Last Chance to Enroll—The Strategy Accelerator Starts Today!

Hey Luck Hackers, This is it—the Strategy Accelerator beta cohort starts today and enrollment closes in just a few hours. If you’ve been waiting for the right time to take action, this is your last chance. 🚀 What You’ll Learn Inside the Strategy Accelerator ✅ How to create powerful strategies tha...

Feb 17, 2025

The 4 Most Valuable Strategy Skills You Need to Master

Hey Luck Hackers, Most leaders think they need to be better at Strategy Thinking—but that’s only part of the equation. If you want to be a top strategist, you need to master four essential skills that separate the best from the rest. But first—a quick heads-up! 🚀 The Strategy Accelerator Starts M...

Feb 16, 2025

Netflix vs. Blockbuster—One Decision Changed Everything

Hey Luck Hackers, Today, I want to share a game-changing strategy lesson from one of the biggest business battles in history. But first—a quick heads-up! 🚀 The Strategy Accelerator Is Almost Here! 🚀 The Strategy Accelerator is my 12-week program designed to help you accelerate execution, create c...

Feb 15, 2025

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