Category Archives: Strategy and the Big Picture

Objective, long-term, strategic, macro view

We have met the enemy and he is us

How many times will this simple observation be a revelation?  Uttered humbly and powerfully in 1971 by one of the most influential leaders of our time—the cartoon strip character Pogo—this statement has never been truer than it is today.  If … Continue reading

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“Free” shouldn’t be

Sitting around the massive ash conference table were over thirty people who represented, and I am not exaggerating, a millennium of experience and knowledge.  At least a thousand years of practical, priceless information.  Free for the asking.  The instant question … Continue reading

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High fidelity board decisions

A thousand families.  When I think of Chieftan Corporation, and the role I played as Chairman of that company, that’s what I think of.  If you apply the typical family size of about four people, that’s four thousand individuals.  And … Continue reading

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Asleep on the bridge

As a group, Americans are not known for planning ahead.  We have had a negative savings rate in this country for many years, until the Great Recession demanded we rethink our profligate ways.  We’re borrowing against our futures as a … Continue reading

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