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Strategic Assumptions
The Hidden, Yet Powerful Beliefs That Control Every Decision You Make
ISBN: 978-0973075212, 5i Strategic Affairs, 2014
Articles
- Challenging “Strategic Planning Myths": What Most Organizations Get Wrong—and Why It Matters”, Linkedin article, July 2025
- Canada Day 2025 Celebrations: A (free) Pan-Canadian Pre-Party Activity, Linkedin article, April 2025
- The Six Stances of Emergent Decision-Making; Ivey Business Journal March/April 2025
- The Recipe for Successful Leverage of AI: Human Beings Being (more) Human!, Linkedin article, May 2024
- Revisiting Strategic Assumptions; Ivey Business Journal March/April 2024
- For sure, please learn to type; but also learn when - and how - to write! LinkedIn article, Feb 2024
- What do you actually do, Mark?; Linkedin article, Nov 2023
- Hippos or Cheetahs: Do we have the global political leadership we deserve?; LinkedIn; Nov 2023
- Enhancing Scenario Planning with AI; Ivey Business Journal, May-June 2023.
- A Regenerational Paradigm for Leadership – It’s time for some “Ethical Anarchy!”; LinkedIn May 2023
- “What is the Unique Value of Social Presencing Theatre (SPT)?” LinkedIn; March 2023
- What is Strategy? ChatGPT Agrees with me: It depends!; LinkedIn; Feb 2023
- Using Porter’s Five Forces to Analyze The Quebec Political industry; LinkedIn; Sept 2022
- A Putin/COVID-19 “Double-Whammy” World: What do Strategic Planning Models Suggest we Might do? Part 3; LinkedIn; March 2022
- Three Leadership Lessons from (and for) President Putin; Linkedin, March 2022
- In “Ma”: Mind the Gap!, Linkedin, March 2021
- La conciencia del liderazgo en la década de los 2020; Linkedin, June 2020
- La conscience du leadership dans les 2020, Linekdin, mai 2020
- The Consciousness of Leadership in the 2020s; Linkedin article, May 2020
- COVID-19: What do Strategic Planning Models Suggest We Might Do, Part II, Linkedin Article, March 2020
- COVID-19: What do Strategic Planning Models Suggest We Might do?; Linkedin Article March 2020
- “The (New?) Purpose of Business. Linkedin Article, August 2019
- The Soft (& Hard) of Strategic Planning, Linkedin Article, August 2019
- A Torn Achilles Tendon: A Leadership Learning Tool, September 2018
- “Get in the Performance Flow”, Ivey Business Journal, August 2018
- “Not Doing “Shitty” Things”, June 2018
- “How We Know Our Governance Systems Are Working” Huffington Post, March 22nd 2017
- “Alternative Leadership” Ivey Business Journal, Jan/Feb 2017
- How to Open the Door to a “Canadian” Trump, Feb 2017
- Leadership, the Social Field and Decision-Making, Nov 2016
- Strategic Planning: Learning from the Future, Oct 2016
- The Formula for Successful Strategic Decision-Making, Aug 2016
- Making Strategic Planning Useful in an Age of Uncertainty, June 2016
- Is HR the Most Important Function in your Organization? March 2016
- Transparency & Accountability in Government; January 2016
- “10 No-Cost and Contrarian Solutions to Canada’s Innovation and Productivity Challenges”
Ivey Business Journal Sept/Oct 2013 - “Smart Workplace Conversation: The (New) Organizational Value Chain”
Ivey Business Journal Jan/Feb 2012 - “CSRisk Management: A New Suit of Clothes for the Naked CEO”
Ivey Business Journal, Nov/Dec 2010 - “Building 360 Organizational Sustainability”
Ivey Business Journal, Nov/Dec 2009 - “Strategic Assumptions: The Essential & Missing Elements of your Strategic Plan”
Ivey Business Journal, Nov/Dec 2008 - “Can we talk? We do, but are we saying anything?"
Globe and Mail, Saturday, September 29th, 2007, Page B19 - “Re-Engineering Today’s Core Business Process - Strong & Truthful Conversation”
Ivey Business Journal, Sept/Oct 2007 - “Is it time to take stock… not of work but of your life?"
Globe and Mail, January 28, 2006 - “Resolving the Dilemma of Work-Life Balance: Developing Life-Maps”
Ivey Business Journal, November/December 2005 - “Project Managers and their Role in the Strategic Management Cycle”
Project Times, Winter 2004 - “Understanding Senior Management and the Decisions They Make”
Project Times, Fall 2003 - “Project Management & Leadership: The Next Step”
Project Times, Summer 2003 - “Success Refined”
Globe and Mail Report on Business, May 7, 2003 - “The New VIPs”
Globe and Mail, November 1, 2002 - Growing People, Growing Companies (ISBN 0-9730752-0-1), 2002