A look at some of the best blog posts that we published in 2014.

Young firms seeking outside funding can attract investors by acknowledging they have room for improvement, while also playing up their strengths.

It’s not enough to say your organization is simple or complicated—you must also understand what kind of complexity you’re dealing with.

Revenues go up, but so do costs — and even with overhead cuts, company leaders don’t see the expected benefits of scale.

Economist Russ Roberts explores Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments, a 255- year-old guide to the good life.

The DHL Global Connectedness Index, now in its third edition, shows that not all flows of trade, capital, information, and people are alike.

To the Nimble Go the Spoils

When your strategy is shackled to the annual planning process, you lose a uniquely powerful management tool.

Aligning Strategy and Sales is the best sales book of the year — and one that senior executives should read.

Companies that realize the power of their capabilities can shape how industries evolve. For more insights, read the related article.

For service companies seeking to lure customers away from their rivals, success lies in keeping it simple.

It’s time for capitalism to find a higher purpose.

Bad economic conditions don’t necessarily mean a death sentence for small companies. They can employ multiple strategies to keep growing.

Contrary to Econ 101, your optimal price should be based on a variety of factors.

Answering two critical questions will fortify your company’s strategy—and your ability to implement it.

Companies that realize the power of their capabilities can shape how industries evolve. And watch the related video.

If it expects to keep growing, the industry must adopt a digital mind-set.

How to navigate the twin demands of current performance and future investment.

Learning what other companies did to acquire firms in developing economies may help U.S. companies be more successful in their own M&A efforts.

Although culture is much more than an “enabler” of strategy, it’s no substitute for it.

Business units abroad that focus on technology and R&D exert more influence with the home office than those that focus on sales or marketing.

The app markets are winning—it’s time to focus on working (and winning) within them.

Advantage is transient, but corporate identity is slow to change. Figure out that paradox, and your company will be primed for success.

Customers and capabilities—not the competition—should take center stage when developing strategies.

Success and profits flow to companies with uniquely valuable market propositions — regardless of their sector.

How embracing sensible legislation can unlock opportunity.

It takes discipline to empower others to awaken their creativity, energy, and spontaneity.

Sharing soft data between salespeople and marketers can boost a company’s innovation efforts and improve its relationship with customers.

Our firm, now called Strategy&, joins the PwC network.

Large initiatives such as oil pipelines have a higher chance of succeeding when stakeholders work together to manage the risks.

A growing rift in San Francisco between techies and long-term residents raises questions about whether employers can—or should—encourage workers to be better neighbors.

Unless a company is backing a philanthropic event, U.S. investors tend to be unhappy with corporate sponsorships.

Roger Martin, coauthor of Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works, introduces a lesson on the proper foundation for core competencies from Compete Smarter, Not Harder: A Process for Developing the Right Priorities through Strategic Thinking, by William Putsis.

Companies that understand the stages of consumer purchasing decisions have an outsized influence in their outcome.

How to help close the gap between assets under management and revenues.

Why excess capacity leads to greater efficiency.

Some funds are making bolder demands of the companies they hold shares in, and that’s not necessarily a good thing.

Why a popular approach to growth may put your company’s health at risk.

New high-tech companies are more attractive to investors when they show room for growth.

From the headlines to the C-suite, big data embodied the height of strategy-as-fashion in 2013.

For multinational companies operating in Russia and China, the key to success is finding ways to avoid PR crises, rather than managing them after they happen.