
So, how do you/we cause deep, lasting impact?
By getting your toughest problems - the ones no one else can solve - out of the way so you can get on with your work.
And how do we do that?
By getting you, your team and your organization clear about- The reality of your problem
- What's causing that reality
- Where to intervene in that reality
- The structural and behavioral changes essential to solving your problem and changing that reality
For examples of some of the toughest problems we've taken on in business and society, see
- Merging F100 leadership teams
- Tackling regulatory changes in market structure
- Achieving market dominance in the digital music industry
- Tripling a high-tech global supply chain
- Changing the climate protection landscape
- Solving poverty and social injustice in Guatemala
For a more conventional approach to our work, please see

Co-designed the launch of a strategic change program for the top 200 leaders of the leading high technology firm in the U.S. It involved radically shifting...
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Worked with the Guatemalan society, through CARE International, to create shared understanding of the fundamental dynamics of poverty among a variety of stakeholders...
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Advised the strategy team for a leading digital music technology company in their successful efforts to lead the digital music industry. Mapped the structure of the digital music industry...
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Intervened in a conflicted collaboration between 24 members from utilities, government, non-profits and foundations attempting to come to agreement about increasing the amount of...
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Took the embattled leadership teams in a combined $20B F100 merger to an offsite retreat on the day their deal closed; designed and delivered a leadership development session...
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Delivered a comprehensive strategic assessment, analysis, and implementation process for a Bay-area software company. The process included a one-page, comprehensive...
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Designed/delivered a strategic development process for the largest ($6B) subsidiary of a 50-year old F100 company whose executives, though excellent within their functional areas...
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Led a team of strategists and systems-thinkers to develop a company-wide simulation of a $40B F100 company facing deregulation. The simulation was used to anticipate the effects of...
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Worked with a premier ski resort company to address the increasing overwhelm facing their most strategically significant functional area. Elicited from various stakeholders the implicit...
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