The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving

Porsche just announced workforce cuts because of dropping sales in China. Every board reads that as an operations problem. It isn't. It's a risk problem — and it's the wrong risk almost every board is looking at.

Here's what nobody asks in the boardroom: once a strategy is successfully implemented, what new risk did it just add to the business? Not the risk of getting ...

Michael has said, all other things being equal, there's only a 10% chance of this working.

Porsche just announced 5,000 more job cuts ,on top of 3,900 already gone. That's 8,900 positions, 21% of the workforce. The headline story is China's collapsing sales.

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Owen Fitzpatrick has spent years studying propaganda, belief systems, and decision-making in places such as North Korea, Rwanda, Afghanistan, and Iran. In this conversation, he explains why the same psychological mechanisms that shape societies also shape the decisions of executives, leaders, and entrepreneurs.

The central insight is that the greatest influence often c...

Learn the immigrant success mindset and how to build resilience. See how specific challenges foster growth for anyone. Many assume the immigrant experience is only defined by hardship, but these challenges often build a unique toolkit for success. In this video, I break down the specific traits that allow people to thrive after moving to a new country. Whether you are an immigra...

I had a coaching call this month where my client could not put his thinking together. He said to me that he wished he had ChatGPT right now. He could do this before. I have watched him do it.

My view is that people are losing the ability, because they have outsourced the work of getting to the core of what they are trying to say. Michael's view is that the ability is s...