Institute of Strategic Leadership & Innovation
Research & Insights
Our leadership team brings decades of combined experience in strategic leadership and innovation, applied research, strategic management, and organizational development to serve the Gulf Coast community.
Executive Perspective
Primary thought leadership from the Institute’s faculty and fellows.
Never Allow Good Enough to Get in the Way of Great
Settling for good enough is not a performance problem first. It is a culture problem, and culture is set at the top. Complacency is…
Mississippi’s Next Competitive Advantage Is Leadership Capacity
Capital, sites, and press releases will not decide this. Mississippi and the Gulf South will compete through the capacity of their leaders to make…
Leadership Brief
Primary thought leadership from the Institute’s faculty and fellows.
Your AI Strategy Should Not Be An IT Strategy
If the leadership team cannot say who owns the AI decision, there is no AI strategy. There is a technology project with a budget. I have watched organizations hand the…
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Primary thought leadership from the Institute’s faculty and fellows.
More Data Doesn’t Always Produce Better Decisions
The leadership challenge is increasingly not acquiring information but knowing which information matters and when there is enough evidence to act. After more than three decades working in decision analytics,…
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