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Are You Ready to Create Value?

Are You Ready to Create Value?

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The Accidental Strategist

Lessons in Value Creation from Air Traffic Control
Why Read the Accidental Strategist?

This book blends practical advice with a dash of humor and real-life experiences, giving leaders and entrepreneurs the tools to make confident, impactful decisions, even in the face of uncertainty. Join me on this journey to becoming a more resilient, strategic, and adaptive leader.

A Book, The Accidental Strategist
A Book, The Accidental Strategist
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The Accidental Strategist

Lessons in Value Creation from Air Traffic Control
Why Read the Accidental Strategist?

This book blends practical advice with a dash of humor and real-life experiences, giving leaders and entrepreneurs the tools to make confident, impactful decisions, even in the face of uncertainty. Join me on this journey to becoming a more resilient, strategic, and adaptive leader.

A Book, The Accidental Strategist

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Leadership Growth

Has leadership hit a skills and knowledge wall? Is technical brilliance drowned in administration?

Leadership Growth

Has leadership hit a skills and knowledge wall? Is technical brilliance drowned in administration?

Leadership Growth

Has leadership hit a skills and knowledge wall? Is technical brilliance drowned in administration?

Growth Ceiling

Are revenues stuck and old tactics aren't working? Have you hit the growth ceiling with no clear path up?

Growth Ceiling

Are revenues stuck and old tactics aren't working? Have you hit the growth ceiling with no clear path up?

Growth Ceiling

Are revenues stuck and old tactics aren't working? Have you hit the growth ceiling with no clear path up?

Uncontrolled Costs

Are your overheads outpacing your revenue growth? Are your COGS leading to poor margins?

Uncontrolled Costs

Are your overheads outpacing your revenue growth? Are your COGS leading to poor margins?

Uncontrolled Costs

Are your overheads outpacing your revenue growth? Are your COGS leading to poor margins?

Inconsistent Performance

40% revenue growth in one quarter, 5% in the next? Are unpredictable revenue swings keeping you up at night?

Inconsistent Performance

40% revenue growth in one quarter, 5% in the next? Are unpredictable revenue swings keeping you up at night?

Inconsistent Performance

40% revenue growth in one quarter, 5% in the next? Are unpredictable revenue swings keeping you up at night?

Failure to Launch

Is your team under performing? Are you drowning in delays?

Failure to Launch

Is your team under performing? Are you drowning in delays?

Failure to Launch

Is your team under performing? Are you drowning in delays?

Cutthroat Competition

Is the competition copying your roadmap and undercutting your price? Are you too busy firefighting to innovate?

Cutthroat Competition

Is the competition copying your roadmap and undercutting your price? Are you too busy firefighting to innovate?

Cutthroat Competition

Is the competition copying your roadmap and undercutting your price? Are you too busy firefighting to innovate?

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An AI computer chip.

Artificial Intelligence & Generative AI

Unlock the potential of generative AI with confidence.

Navigate the risks and seize the opportunities of adopting generative AI. From evaluating security and ethical considerations to identifying transformative business applications, get tailored insights to support informed, strategic AI integration.

ReSCUED - A Framework From The Accidental Strategist

A simple yet powerful process

The Accidental Strategist introduces the ReSCUED method. Six steps to continuous value creation. A disciplined and repeatable value creation system.

The Accidental Strategist introduces the ReSCUED method. Six steps to continuous value creation. A disciplined and repeatable value creation system.

Break through growth barriers and create lasting value with proven strategies that deliver measurable results

Download your free strategy execution self assessment guide.

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Why Your Strategy Should Prioritize Experience Over Features - Part 1

It always starts with clarity. A company is founded to solve a specific, painful problem. The early roadmap is crisp. Focused. Built on urgency and direct feedback from real users trying to get real things done. And then, success. Customers come in. Revenue grows. The roadmap expands.

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AI

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AI Fraud

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General

Aug 1, 2025

The Ai Fix for Private Equity - Sample

Some things are easier to deny than to fix. When intelligent systems work well, they create surplus capacity. And when that happens, the default corporate response is as predictable as it is destructive, cut costs. That's exactly where businesses break their own systems.

General

Aug 1, 2025

The AI Fix for Private Equity - Book Index

The index for the upcoming book, The AI Fix for Private Equity - A New Playbook for Value Creation from Pre-Deal to Exit

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Strategy

Jul 29, 2025

Why Your Strategy Should Prioritize Experience Over Features - Part 2

In the software world and particularly SaaS, features don’t differentiate, experience does. You can match every feature your competitors offer and still lose. Not because your product is worse, but because it feels harder to use, slower to deliver value, or just less thoughtful.

This Must Be The Place signage

Strategy

Jul 28, 2025

Why Your Strategy Should Prioritize Experience Over Features - Part 1

It always starts with clarity. A company is founded to solve a specific, painful problem. The early roadmap is crisp. Focused. Built on urgency and direct feedback from real users trying to get real things done. And then, success. Customers come in. Revenue grows. The roadmap expands.

man holding smartphone looking at productivity wall decor

General

Aug 1, 2025

The Ai Fix for Private Equity - Sample

Some things are easier to deny than to fix. When intelligent systems work well, they create surplus capacity. And when that happens, the default corporate response is as predictable as it is destructive, cut costs. That's exactly where businesses break their own systems.

General

Aug 1, 2025

The AI Fix for Private Equity - Book Index

The index for the upcoming book, The AI Fix for Private Equity - A New Playbook for Value Creation from Pre-Deal to Exit

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DELIVERING CLARITY FROM COMPLEXITY

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NeWTHISTle Consulting

DELIVERING CLARITY FROM COMPLEXITY

Copyright © 2024 NewThistle Consulting LLC. All Rights Reserved

NeWTHISTle Consulting

DELIVERING CLARITY FROM COMPLEXITY

Copyright © 2024 NewThistle Consulting LLC. All Rights Reserved