Leadership
The quantum audit
What companies are using it for and what your board should be asking
Frameworks
Leadership
AI
The AI risk register
Your framework to highlight invisible nasties for the board
AI
Building an AI strategy
And moving from unsure mode to defined and happy
AI
How Nvidia flipped the board on agentic work
You can have hundreds of agents, but with no office, rules or strategy for them to work to, you're running a Wild-West game doomed for trouble
AI
What is our AI proposition?
The only question in the City today
AI
Token turns: a one-armed bandit outcome punt
The latest in the Outcome Economics Series
Growth
Outcome economics: the future of consulting
How consultancies will begin to change and what to do about it
Growth
How to Write an Executive Summary for a Business Plan (With Examples)
The seven things every business plan executive summary needs, with worked examples. Plus length, structure and the mistakes investors see again and again.
Leadership
The 8 Skills for leaders in the age of AI
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece called "How many people can I fire?". For some reason, it upset a number of folks who don't agree there will be job cuts and massive shifts from AI. I had quite a few emails - and believe it or not, I really like it when people write in with what they
Growth
How Long Should an Executive Summary Be? (250 to 500 Words, and Why)
The right length for an executive summary is 250 to 500 words. Here's why, with specific guidance for business plans, board papers, proposals and pitch decks.
Leadership
How to Fire Someone
Over Christmas, I read The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. My friend Todd Wade, an excellent Chief Information Security Officer, gave it to me for my birthday. It's a warts-and-all account of how hard it is to be a CEO and the junk you have to deal with as part of the job.
Leadership
The Quality of Your Thoughts
Being a CEO is highly stressful and sometimes you have to wonder why you took it all on. Hiring the wrong people, not hitting the number, deploying the wrong project - and having to ask 'have you done it yet' about 100 times a day. If everything works, the team did it. If one thing goes
Page 1 of 2
Older →