Outthinker Blog
The Outthinker blog offers our take on the latest news stories, trends, and ideas in strategy. Learn real-world examples of the Outthinker strategic process along with suggestions on how to apply them to your business
Knowing The Opportunity Is Yours
An entrepreneur who has launched 19 companies, and created over 50 million human life years as a result, shares his approach to recognizing opportunities. It
5 Reasons you Need to Instill Values in Your Organization
This blog was originally published by our friend and Outthinker, Jessica, on Fastcompany.com. It is an old truism: employees do not turn to written statements
9 Ways to Share Your Strategic Thinking Skills with Your Team
Your ability to think strategically is the most important leadership trait you can have–more important than your innovativeness, influence, communication skills, or ability to get
What We Love Online Today: 4 Tips for Recognizing Opportunties
The success of your career or business depend on your ability to recognize and move on opportunities before they disappear. How do you that job
What we love on the web today: How Lego and Apple Win
Geoff Colvin at Fortune argues that Apple’s and Lego’s success both point to a critical new success factor. As companies grow large, they seek efficiencies
What we love online today: Developing Strategic Thinkers
A fascinating article on HBR’s blog site describes a recent survey of 60,000 managers and executives and that strategic thinking skills are more important in
10 Most Competitive Tech Companies in the World
Download our full white paper report here: Outthinker 10 Technology March 2014 At Outthinker we follow Chicago University Professor Michael Csikszentmihalyi’s distinction of there being two
Two Critical Aspects to Innovating Your Business Model
Call me crazy for asking, but is business model innovation really anything new? Hasn’t it always been that those willing to explore creative ways to
What we Love on the Web Today: Scaling Up is Much Harder than Starting Up
Our friend Verne Harnish, author of “The Rockefeller Habits,” shared this Economist article with us today. Daniel Isenberg, of Babson Executive Education, takes issue with
Our favorite from the web today: 21 CEOs Share their Favorite Books
Business Insider shares the favorite of 21 CEOs including Tom Cook, Jeff Bezos, Tony Hsieh, and Richard Branson. This is reading list worth considering.
4 Lessons in Building a Brand
Love it or hate it, your success this year and beyond depends on your ability to shape a brand: your career’s, product’s, department’s, or company’s.
5 Ways to Reframe your Thinking to be More Like Elon Musk
Drawing parallels between Elon Musk and Steve Jobs is irresistible, but how do big thinkers like them come up with their innovative ideas and how
Great Companies Solve Problems that Matter
The age of judging companies only on their longevity is now past. Great companies solve problem that matter. Since the 1950s we have been judging
