Founder's Mentality® Overview About About Founder's Mentality About Micro-battles Book Blog Founder's Mentality® Blog Blog Our latest insights on achieving sustainable, profitable growth in a world of faster change Change Management Micro-battles and the Journey to Scale Insurgency Discrete, fast-moving initiatives bring focus to strategic choices and help companies rediscover the art of getting stuff done. Strategy How to Succeed in an Era of Volatility Invest in prediction, adaptability, and resilience. Strategy Roadmap for a Post-Pandemic World Bain Partner James Allen shares how CEOs can sustain the speed and adaptability that their organizations uncovered during the crisis. Strategy The Engine 2 Imperative: New Business Innovation and Profitable Growth under Turbulence Amid new forms of competitive differentiation and shifting business boundaries, the potential to build innovative, next-generation businesses at scale has never been greater. Strategy Covid-19: Is Your Board Hitting the Brakes on CEO Succession? Crises slow the most critical leadership decisions. Business Strategy A New Social Contract: Talent in a Post-Covid-19 World Design an organization that supports and celebrates your most critical roles. Business Strategy A New Social Contract: Planning in a Post-Covid-19 World You have most of the answers you need from lockdown ways of working. The best CEOs already know what to do. Business Strategy A New Social Contract: Middle Management in a Post-Covid-19 World You don’t have a “middle” problem. You have a “muddle” problem. Business Strategy The Power-Up Sequence: Addressing the Organizational Costs of Covid-19 Lockdown To avoid a snapback to old ways of working, CEOs can start the journey toward a new social contract. Business Strategy Managing Trade-offs: Prediction, Adaptability and Resilience Here’s the CEO and board agenda for the long “dance” of recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. Business Strategy Serving Your Customers Flawlessly During the Long “Dance” CEOs are going on the offensive to build businesses for the new normal. Business Strategy When and How Should Leaders Retool for a Post-Coronavirus World? CEOs are learning from Apollo 13 and alpine-style mountaineering—yes, really. Covid-19: Macroeconomic Update and an Action Plan for CEOs Bain's Karen Harris and James Allen provide an update on macroeconomic conditions around Covid-19 and how CEOs can best respond. Business Strategy What Big Business Idea Will Emerge from the Pandemic? CEOs are reimagining the firm and fighting a snap back to old ways of working. Business Strategy Preparing for the Post-Pandemic World How the best CEOs are taking three actions to retool for the new normal. Business Strategy The Coronavirus May Inspire a Great Retooling What the CEOs of the 2020s can learn from the business leaders of the 1940s as they confront Covid-19. Business Strategy Rehearsing and Retooling for a Post-Coronavirus World Bain Partner James Allen discusses how leading businesses are adapting to better serve customers and employees today—and tomorrow. Business Strategy The Great Retooling: Adapting for Coronavirus and Beyond Here’s how CEOs are finding ways to win the battle for customer relevance and outrun extinction. Strategy Coronavirus: A CEO's Dress Rehearsal for the New World Business leaders are sharing five key messages with teams to prepare them for turbulence today—and tomorrow. Business Strategy Using Micro-battles to Build a Business of the Future The next generation of winning firms will be big and fast. Micro-battles can help companies get there. See more
