Strategy, leadership, and culture
You and Your Team Have Untapped Potential.
Let’s Realize It.
Let’s Realize It.
The Value You and Your Team Create
= Focus × Speed × Rigor
Each one develops like a muscle. Everything on this site is built to strengthen one of them.
FocusDecide what creates the most value, put your people, time, and money behind it, and stop doing the rest.Strategy and priorities ↓SpeedRaise the bar on how fast things get done, and clear the bottlenecks that slow decisions, execution, and change.Execution, teams, and culture ↓RigorPut sound logic behind every decision and plan, and care and the right precision into the work itself.Problem solving and quality ↓
Focus: Strategy and priorities
Decide what creates the most value.
Focus starts with strategy, the goals you choose and the actions you take to achieve them. It also means deciding what to stop doing. These guides cover every part of your business model, plus the tools to set priorities and measure what matters.
Big Picture →What Is Strategy?Business ModelsCompetitive AdvantageDeveloping a StrategyStrategic Planning
Market Analysis →SWOT AnalysisPESTLE AnalysisPorter’s Five ForcesBenchmarkingMarket Research Reports
Customers and Markets
Customer StrategyMarket StrategySegmentation AnalysisJobs to Be DoneGeographic Strategy
Value Proposition →Customer Value PropositionProduct StrategyPricing StrategyService StrategyNet Promoter Score
Go-to-Market
Sales StrategyMarketing StrategyDistribution StrategyDigital Marketing StrategyNegotiation Strategy
Plus free PowerPoint templates to get you started.
Speed: Execution, teams, and culture
Get your team moving faster.
Speed comes through people. It starts with leaders raising the bar on how fast things can get done. Then simplify the work and clear the bottlenecks that slow decisions, execution, and change. Clear plans and a culture that holds everyone to a high bar keep the pace going.
Rigor: Problem solving, decisions, and quality
Get the logic right.
Rigor is sound logic behind every decision and plan, and care and the right level of precision in the work itself, from the leadership team to the front line. It gives a team conviction and makes speed safe. These tools cover how the best leaders frame and solve problems, analyze, decide, and get the work right.
Problem Solving →Problem StatementsMECEHypothesis TreesDeductive and Inductive LogicRoot Cause AnalysisSCR Framework
Analytics →Creating an Analytic ModelProfit TreesData AnalysisSynthesizingBusiness ChartsFCF and ROIC
The McKinsey Problem Solving CourseThe frameworks top consultants use to frame, solve, and communicate any problem. Learn at your own pace.Start the course →All 100 leadership tools →
AI: Strategy and transformation
Use AI to multiply focus, speed, and rigor.
AI is changing how fast teams can move and how much they can get done. The best leaders use it to sharpen focus, speed up decisions and execution, and raise the quality of the work.
Work with Joe
How I help leaders and their teams create extraordinary value through focus, speed, and rigor.
Coach to Fortune 500 CEOs · McKinsey and Oliver Wyman alum · Former CEO, COO, CFO, and CMO · 3M+ leaders use Stratechi
Executive CoachingHelp you and your team create more value, faster.Executive Presence and CommunicationCommunicate with clarity and confidence.Strategy WorkshopsGet your team aligned on what matters most and leave with decisions.Leadership TrainingTeach your people to solve problems and make decisions like top consultants.Business TransformationWork side by side with you to remove what is slowing the business down.Culture by CommitmentBuild a culture where people hold themselves to a high bar.Keynote SpeakingTalks on culture and leadership that give your people a shared language.See how I work with clients →
About Joe
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I have spent 15 years coaching executives, including 7 years at McKinsey and Oliver Wyman, and another 15 years leading companies as CEO, COO, CFO, and CMO across SaaS, retail, manufacturing, and consumer goods. I built Stratechi.com to share what I have learned, and more than three million leaders have used it.
“Stratechi.com is the best publicly available overview of strategy and leadership.” Tim Riser
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