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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

In a complex world where predictability is impossible and innovation and risk are necessary to survive and thrive, mistakes are not only acceptable, but welcome. With Co-Author James ‘Murph’ Murphy, he wrote the 2010 release The Flawless Execution Field Manual. But not before we learn from it. Consider leaving a comment!

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? Kotter’s book Accelerate.).

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Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time

Harvard Business Review

Many other experts, such as Senge and Kotter have certainly added to that understanding with complex and nuanced constructs, but Caldwell's invisible glue comment holds a truth. We all know that we want the best ideas to triumph for the best innovations to take place, but sometimes we act as if that only applies when the idea is our idea.