Cultivating Strategy
Last Monday I suggested that strategic planning is skewed (in an unhealthy way) towards relevance. On Wednesday, I made the case that social media has some lessons for us in this area--the way social media uses continuou ...
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Working with Other Humans Is Not Optional
A big part of conflict resolution is problem solving, and one of the biggest parts of problem solving is defining the problem. I was reminded of this when I came across this great comic over on this blog: We throw up ou ...
The Missing Link in Strategic Planning
Monday's post talked about the relationship between strategic planning and relevance. In short, the typical process we use for strategic planning (scan-plan-implement-evaluate) actually skews us towards remaining mer ...
Strategic Planning Is Worse than Dead: It's Relevant
This was one of the epiphanies I came to in preparing for the session Maddie Grant and I did in California last week. For years I had been trying to make the argument that strategic planning was dead. The process, while ...
Strategic Planning Is Worse than Dead: It’s Relevant
This was one of the epiphanies I came to in preparing for the session Maddie Grant and I did in California last week. For years I had been trying to make the argument that strategic planning was dead. The process, while ...
Leadership Skills: Curiosity
This is the third of three leadership skills for the 21st century. The first was truth, the second was courage, and I wrote about the mindsets that provide the background last week. The last skill set I want to talk abou ...
Leadership Skills: Courage
This is the second of three leadership skills for the 21st century, which come from three different leadership mindsets. The first skill I wrote about is truth. The second is courage.Courage is a skill.Courage is not a c ...
Leadership Skills: Truth
So last week I gave you the background. This post talked about the trends impacting leadership these days (pace of change, social internet, generational shift), and then this post suggests three new mindsets for leadersh ...
How to Manage Disrespect
A very nice case study of a social media brouhaha has been developing over on ASAE's blog, Acronym. Scott Briscoe wrote what I thought was a nice post about some tricky issues related to how consultants and associati ...