Fish or starve

To provide the author's opinions about key issues in strategy and the future to the readership.

This article is an opinion column.

There are good analogies between the survival or failure of societies and the survival or failure of companies.

Based not on rigorous research but on the author's experience of planning engagements across a wide variety of private and public enterprises. (Based largely on reading of Jared Diamond's book Collapse.)

Illustrates critical survival techniques of businesses.

Expresses opinions that the author believes have not been expressed in quite this way before.