Organizations love listing strengths: strong people, good culture, great service, solid reputation. Taking a strategic perspective results in a more difficult question: are those actual advantages, or are they the same things that everyone else also has? This is exactly what the VRIO framework, developed by Jay Barney, helps clarify. […]

In business, we understand that making emotional decisions isn’t good sense. That’s why organizations rely on structure. Meeting cadences, agendas, decision frameworks, and defined processes, for example. These mechanisms are not about control, they exist to protect the quality of decisions when pressure is high. Life, however, doesn’t operate the […]