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Death by Playbook: Why Copy-Paste Growth Fails
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Growth playbooks can provide useful guidance, but adopting another organization’s strategies, structures and practices without understanding the conditions that made them successful can create more problems than they solve. Sustainable scaling requires an understanding of your own business’s ambitions, capabilities and constraints rather than assuming that someone…
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If This Business Model Works, Why Isn’t It Working for Me?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: A business model can show us what someone did, but it cannot capture every condition that made what they did work. Before concluding that a model doesn’t work, it may be worth examining whether the problem is the model itself or something less visible that is affecting…
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Misalignment isn’t obvious until it’s catastrophic.
Every so often, someone insists they’ve found Atlantis — a sunken city, a lost continent, a hidden civilization. The story just won’t die. Plato’s original tale, written around 360 BCE, wasn’t meant as history. It was a metaphor: a powerful civilization brought to ruin by arrogance, corruption, and disconnection from balance. Yet thousands of years…
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Developing a Model that Works for You
It’s Carnival time again here in Trinidad and Tobag!. Lot’s of liming, plenty feteing, eating and drinking – at least for those of us on the receiving end of the music and the food! 🙂 For the artists, performers and musicians it’s a narrow window within which they need to make the most money that…
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