
Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale Resonates Loudly 35 Years After Publication
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Margaret Atwood’s book The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) is an easy to read and beautifully written cautionary dystopian tale of how quickly and easily totalitarianism can destroy the freedom we take for granted.

Why Strategic Planning is Both Natural and Necessary for Success
A strategic plan is an essential management process and tool. It significantly contributes to organizing the thinking and actions required to ensure a valued and profitable use of resources sufficient to sustain and enhance the profitability and continued existence of the business or organization.

The Imperative of Business Strategy
Strategy is the roadmap for success. It is an articulated expression of what the organization strives to achieve, and how it will go about doing so.

The Myth of the Memorable Mission Statement
It is a common perspective amongst leaders that an organizational statement of purpose must be short, memorable and motivating like the world’s greatest marketing slogans or brand tag lines. What these executives are never able to validate is why this is better or more important than a more comprehensive statement that explains and communicates the purpose of the business.

Failure is a Prompt to Check Your Premises
The key to benefitting from failure does not reside in failing. Failing is not a virtuous act.

Walt Disney’s Method for Converting Failure into Success: Contrast and Extension
Throughout his roughly forty-five-year career, from Kansas City, Missouri, to California and Florida, Walt Disney marched towards a higher vision of possibility and actuality as seen in contrast to the “failed” solutions of business and urban planning conventions. He was an innovator.

Failure Can Be Mined for New Knowledge and Unseen Opportunities
In the right context and when appropriately framed, the identification of failure is one the best way to scout out and identify the possibilities for improvement. To the keen entrepreneurial eye, the failure of others can shine light on potential opportunities.

Does More Failure Bring More Success?
There is a strange idea that has been floating around the world of management for the past few decades. It is this: failure is good and should be both encouraged and embraced.

The Process of Creative Destruction in Walt Disney’s Success
With the recent interest in applying Austrian economic theory towards a better understanding of managerial effectiveness, there is value in reflecting on Walt Disney’s career through an Austrian lens.

The Solution Is In How We Solve Problems
A technique to improving managerial performance when planning is to take into account the second and third-order consequences and implications of one’s actions across an expanding time period. The farther out one is able to project and consider, the better.

The Search For A Valid Methodology Of Human Action
The term praxeology is used to convey the general scientific study of human behaviour as differentiated from the study of the clockwork deterministic physical scientific world of natural stuff void of consciousness.

The Unseen Unintended Consequences of Intended Actions
Henry Hazlitt does an excellent job presenting the importance of recognizing and always taking into consideration the likely unseen and unintended consequences of intended action in the realm of economics in his classic book Economics in One Lesson.