Tagged in

Strategy

The Heretic

The Heretic is Pascal Finette’s insights into leadership in exponential times. For entrepreneurs, corporate irritants and change makers. Raw, unfiltered and opinionated — delivered straight to your inbox. You will like it. → https://theheretic.org

More information

Followers

4.4K

Elsewhere

More, on Medium

Strategy

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Feb 15, 2021

The New Shape Of The Long Tail

In October 2004 Chris Anderson, WIRED Magazine’s editor in chief, wrote his pivotal post about “The Long…

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Jun 30, 2019

Startups Beware: Time Horizon 2 Might Kill You

In early 2000 Mehrdad Baghai published “The Alchemy of Growth: Practical Insights for Building the Enduring Enterprise” — a book which quickly became a seminal read for managers and leaders in companies big and small. In the book he developed the…

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Feb 2, 2019

The OODA-Loop

The other day I had a truly delightful (and hilariously funny) conversation with a member of the British special forces. In our conversation, he introduced me to the OODA-Loop as a mechanism the military trains to make better and faster decisions.

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Jan 8, 2019

The Achilles Heel of Large Corporations (And How to Leverage Them)

Pretty much every established/incumbent company in pretty much any industry shares the same two Achilles heels — making them a ready target for their upstart competitors:

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

May 23, 2018

Building Your Company For The Next 100 Years — Even As If

An article in Inc. Magazine recently talked about how you should build your company as if you were building it for the next 100 years — while, at the same time, also building it like you would be selling it tomorrow.

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Apr 2, 2018

On Strategy

One of the most misused words being thrown around in the world of business these days must be “strategy.” Folks use the word seemingly for everything — from their “social media strategy,” their “customer engagement strategy” and “sales strategy” to, I kid you not, their “lunchtime employee food strategy.”

1 response

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Dec 28, 2017

Business Is Not, I Repeat, Is NOT a Battlefield

The words we use to describe the world of business all too often seem to come straight out of a war story. Take this excerpt from a book I recently (tried to) read, comparing business to the way dogs and cats hunt and fight:

1 response

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Sep 12, 2017

Stop the Guessathons

My friend and extraordinary inventor Tom Chi keep reminding the participants in his fantastic workshops and talks to end the guessathons. Guessathons are those moments when a bunch of (often smart) people get in a room and spend all their time and energy with arguing about their guesses…

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Apr 30, 2017

Take a Step Back To Make Two Steps Forward

When I launched my first startup — which in a lot of ways was also my first experience of running something as complex as a company, juggling multiple stakeholders (customers, service providers, partners, investors, and employees) and staking out the…

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Jan 12, 2017

Strategery

Founders often smirk when they hear people talk about strategy, strategic planning or any other term prefaced with “strategy/strategic”. In…

1 response