- The first rule of career planning: Do not plan your career.- The world is an incredibly complex place and everything is changing all the time. You can’t plan your career because you have no idea what’s going to happen in the future. You have no idea what industries you’ll enter, what companies you’ll work for, what roles you’ll have, where you’ll... See more

“My advice is to get as much exposure to client service, presenting, and learning what wins in rooms. So many strategists are brilliant, read all the right books, and know all the right theory, and sound academic, which becomes redundant if they can’t make people believe. It’s not enough to have the right answer...you need the ability to make... See more

A decade later, I had risen through the ranks to become the CEO of another company. I was that most senior of executives. The company would live or die by the strategic choices I made, or so I thought. I wrote the strategy or at least variations were presented to me and I would decide. But, something had gone terribly wrong in my journey. Somehow... See more