Foundstone Conversations Andrew Bird

“Strategy is a set of integrated choices.”“A plan is not a strategy.” This is our conversation with the world’s #1 management thinker Roger Martin.The former Dean of the Rotman School of Management & author of 13 books including Playing to Win and A New Way to Think.Roger's work in strategy, continues to leave a prominent mark globally in distilling down complex and often noisy concepts into crystal clear principles that can be applied in the real world.As a strategy advisory o...

In this episode, we chat with Brad Krauskopf, Founder and CEO of The Hub. The Hub is Australia’s largest privately-owned co-working provider.We kick off our conversation with how Brad works through making tough strategy choices.Brad shares his practical experience with getting customer insights and how that helps the organisation to get clarity & the confidence to make the best strategy decisions. As a certified B-Corp, we also talk about the fundamentals of what a B-Corp is and what...

In this episode, we chat with Jordan Colreavy, who’s the Head of Category Strategy at one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies L'OréalJordan gives some rare insights of how L’Oreal use a unique mix of both Intuition & creativity for strategy & execution across the business.He talks about how L'Oréal's French heritage and culture have a big influence on this – and how other organisation leaders can learn from this sort of approach.L’Oreal also captures unique customer ...

Want to hear first hand, how to build a billion-dollar business?We had a recent conversation with David Shein, founder of Australia's first $ billion-technology company, to find out how.Now, as co-founder and partner of Our Innovation Fund, David is one of the best connected venture capital investors in the country.He's also the author of a book that's been released fairly recently "The Dumbest Guy at the Table". So, we talked about how his recent book came about, the subtext and ...

It was great to have Wendy back for another conversation and this time, in her new role as the Executive Director Social Procurement and Impact with Social Traders. In this latest conversation, we dive deeper into the world of Social Enterprise.Wendy talks about her time in her previous role as the CEO of a Social Enterprise and some of the first-hand learning and experiences of how she grew that business significantly through Social Enterprise principles.In Foundstone's work with other ...

In this episode, we chat with Julia Hautz - the Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.Julia is the co-author of 'Open Strategy, a book that is taking the global strategy community by storm.Open Strategy, as Julia explains, means actively involving people from outside the C-suite in strategy deliberations.Both internal and external to the organisation.This can include customers, partners, suppliers, and even competitors.As well as those internal to the org...