Fish or starve

Abstract

Purpose

To provide the author's opinions about key issues in strategy and the future to the readership.

Design/methodology/approach

This article is an opinion column.

Findings

There are good analogies between the survival or failure of societies and the survival or failure of companies.

Research limitations/implications

Based not on rigorous research but on the author's experience of planning engagements across a wide variety of private and public enterprises. (Based largely on reading of Jared Diamond's book Collapse.)

Practical implications

Illustrates critical survival techniques of businesses.

Originality/value

Expresses opinions that the author believes have not been expressed in quite this way before.

Citation

Marren, P. (2006), "Fish or starve", Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 27 No. 5, pp. 7-9. https://doi.org/10.1108/02756660610692644