Organizational vitality directly drives business success, yet Gallup reports that 80% of workers worldwide feel disconnected from their work. Even modest gains in employee well-being and engagement can transform an organization's performance. When top executives and HR leaders make a sincere commitment to improving workforce engagement through concrete action plans, they can achieve remarkable results.

There is a “The Reality Inc.” in every company.

It is the people at the frontline who touch the product and/or look at the eyes of the customer.

Success in the humanoid robots market is not merely about technical prowess, but about scaling fast, ratcheting up market share, and bolstering pricing power—all made possible through strategic business model innovations.

A process without a memory resembles the love story of Lucy & Henry in the movie the 50 First Dates. Henry sets his heart on romancing Lucy, but Lucy has short-term memory loss; she can't remember anything that happened the day before. So every morning, Henry has to woo her again and has to earn her love every day over and over.

The key to phased impact lies in creating an environment where expertise meets adaptability. High-performing teams, like skilled jazz ensembles, master their individual crafts while maintaining a keen awareness of the collective goal.

Just as programming languages are compiled into .exe files that computers can understand and execute, effective strategy requires translation into affordances of each participant and orchestration of their actions. Without this clarity and harmony, leadership remains merely aspirational.

In corporate strategy, one of the most pervasive yet underappreciated cognitive traps is what I call "adjacency bias"—the tendency of organizations to focus their strategic vision narrowly on markets, industries, or businesses that feel safely adjacent to their existing portfolio.

AI agents are coming to revolutionize the overhead. Historically, overhead increases complexity, rigidity, and operating leverage, which in turn leads to missing opportunities, ignored vulnerabilities, price capitulations, and abrupt downsizing programs.

Platforms are made to combine two forces: exponentially more for the logarithmically less into a self-reinforcing and self-sustaining power similar to a rising tornado

In complex organizations, outcomes become emergent properties—irreducible results shaped by a labyrinth of hidden interactions and interdependencies. In such environments, where clarity is elusive, theatrics and politics often become the default affordances for navigating ambiguity.

Today’s businesses resemble castles built on icebergs. Competitive advantage has always been temporary, but the commoditization of engineering and the speed of technological dissemination raise the bar as to what qualifies as technology. Now, all the big icebergs are deep tech domains such as fusion reactors, industrialization of space, quantum computing, biotech, and photonics.

Incremental gains or moonshots? Here is a structured analysis of the main innovation portfolio strategies in light of history’s wartime innovation strategies.

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is an exciting initiative, but let's not forget the backbone of global finance: U.S. government spending and debt. Even small improvements in America's fiscal health could send ripples across the world's financial systems, reshaping the game.

As traditional barriers to rural living rapidly erode, a transformative societal shift is underway - one that presents a unique investment opportunity to capitalize on the emerging "Great Dispersion."

As we approach 2025, we're witnessing a "sea change"—a profound transformation from the pursuit of agility and rapid growth to a focus on profitability, liquidity, and risk management.
Just as sailors must adjust their sails to navigate new currents, businesses need to adapt to these changing waters.

As we approach 2025 and beyond, traditional approaches to pricing and margin management must evolve to address not only competitive pressures but also structural changes in the global economy.

The last 30 years of the world economy resembled physics without gravity. But the period from 2025 onwards is likely to test the fortitude of companies globally. Those that prioritize effective working capital management will be better positioned to navigate the complexities of stagflation in a more volatile world.

ERP is where problems manifest, but usually, it is not the source of problems. Engineering and sales are the major upstream sources of new information for manufacturing companies. If the respective systems such as forecasting, CRM, and PDM/PLM, are well-implemented, the rest of the digital transformation becomes a breeze.

Similar to the story of the Achilles, most manufacturers are suffering cuts on both heels, causing their downfall despite the rest of the body’s strength. Here is how to get Primed to Win by avoiding these cuts.

Smart manufacturing is about being smart, not about penny-pinching by using technology. Here is why Cybertruck is a great example of smart manufacturing and a great case of simplicity as a manufacturing strategy.