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  <description><![CDATA[Cedar Cloud Rise is a Boston-based strategy consultancy led by Charlotte Thwaite. Focused, written, honest work for founders and leadership teams.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to read an organization before you start advising it]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The most common mistake in consulting work is moving to recommendations before the diagnosis is complete. It is an understandable mistake. Clients want answers. Consultants want to be useful. But a recommendation made before the situation is understood is just a guess dressed up as advice.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:09:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[When strategy consulting actually helps an organization]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most organizations that hire a strategy consultant do not get much from it. That is a blunt thing to say, but it is true often enough to be worth saying. The question is not whether strategy work is valuable in principle. It is whether the conditions are right for it to be valuable in your situation.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:38:41 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[A simple framework for high-stakes decisions]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most high-stakes decisions go wrong not because the decision-maker lacked information, but because they did not examine the assumptions underneath their preferred option. The information was there. The assumptions were invisible.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:39:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to write a strategy memo that people actually use]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most strategy documents get filed within a month of being written. They are thorough, well-formatted, and completely ignored. The problem is usually not the content. It is the form. A strategy memo that gets used is a different kind of document than a strategy presentation.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:57:52 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Facilitating leadership offsites that produce real outputs]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The most common complaint about leadership offsites is that they produce a lot of good conversation and very little that is actionable afterward. The problem is almost always in the design, specifically in the gap between what the session is meant to discuss and what it is meant to produce.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:37:02 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Organizational design for teams that have grown quickly]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The structure that works at fifteen people rarely works at fifty. Most organizations figure this out the hard way, after the confusion has been expensive for a year or two. The signs are recognizable if you know what to look for.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:42:07 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What a leadership advisory relationship actually looks like]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The leadership advisory retainer is the engagement that is hardest to explain and, for the right person, the most useful. It is not coaching. It is not a project. It is a standing relationship with someone who knows your situation well enough to be useful when something comes up.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:26:40 GMT</pubDate>
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