The official history of The Sports Authority credits one man with a vision. That version is wrong, the tidy story we reach for because it is easier to tell than the truth. Its founding merchant, Roy Cohen, kept the real one, and it is the better lesson in how strategy actually emerges. The chain that became the first sporting goods retailer to pass a billion dollars in sales was built far less from a plan than from judgment. “to Roy, who knows the real story.” — inscribed on a closing dinner...

Introducing PRISM: Enterprise Risk Intelligence for a World Where AI Finds Vulnerabilities Faster Than You Fix Them (We've been iterating on this enterprise risk framework for over a decade, and with the emergence of Claude Mythos, it's now critical for teams to take a wholistic view and leverage shared language to properly and proactively manage portfolio risk. - WHE) This week, Anthropic released Claude Mythos Preview . It autonomously discovered thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities...

The complete, annotated reference list for the Cicero Challenge : 90 peer-reviewed articles across eight intellectual threads, read and publicly reflected upon over 90 consecutive days. From the origins of scenario planning, strategic foresight, and future's thinking. We often talk about de-risking our product strategy or product roadmap, but what about de-risking and preparing for our futures? It is easy to get lost in the daily grind, focusing solely on the next three to six months while...