Indy Neogy

Recognizing that strategy is a creative exercise

I think of the strategy frameworks for more stable environments as castle-building (e.g., Michael Porter’s five forces framework) or chess (e.g., the resource-based view proposed by Jay Barney); that’s in contrast to strategy in dynamic environments, which is more like surfing, where you try to be ag... See more

Either way, the upshot of the expectations research, for me, anyway, is during a period of change, be it big or small, I need to constantly be asking myself if I’ve updated my expectations to match reality, or if I am clinging to old expectations.

Though he knows it’s not fairly common, Colin’s left needing more:

What if there was a way to overlay somehow that I drank half a bottle of BodyArmor when I started the run? And at mile 6, I briefly stopped to drink some water and eat an energy gel.

And then how can I compare how that nutrition impacted my metrics compared to two weeks earlier when I... See more

This advice may sound familiar; it lies at the heart of books like Blink and Gary Klein’s The Power of Intuition, which promise to help readers harness their gut feelings. But for executives taught to methodically frame problems, consider alternatives, collect data, weigh the options, and then decide, cultivating emotional self-awareness may seem l... See more