by Thom Kennon | Feb 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is the first post here on my consulting blog in some time. I’ve been dedicating all my research and writing time these past three years to my Leaps Project. The idea animating the three-volume work is to inspire the coming generation of business, product and...
by Thom Kennon | May 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
The history of business teaching in the US has been consistently predictable for the past two generations of MBA programming. Ever since the signatories to the Bretton Woods agreement, a month before the end of World War II, bequeathed the governing structures of the...
by Thom Kennon | May 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Insights are scary During a recent tour as strategy chief at a holding company agency here in New York, I was presenting a proposed strategy group work model to the senior team. About five minutes into my presentation the head of office asked me, “What do you see as...
by Thom Kennon | Jan 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Picture Browsing Reddit I stumbled upon this image of Room 100 of the Central Building in the New York Public Library. Its catalog details are dateless but the clothes, hairdos and office equipment seem to place the moment in the teens of the 20th century. My New...
by Thom Kennon | Nov 14, 2018 | Free Radicals
Show of hands: how many of us have stood in front of a meeting or a boss or a client or a conference horde and said something infinitely pithy that included the word ‘scale’? Me too. But I’m done. No more ‘scale matters’, at least not at the...