One of the first things I learned in consulting is that a strategy is only as strong as its weakest

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Many of you have asked me to take a closer look at the McKinsey-Bennet 9-S Framework. Since publishing my December

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We’ve all seen the classic SWOT slide - four neat quadrants, often with vague buzzwords like “agility” or “customer

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