Go out and find a copy of the June Harvard Business Review Magazine (sorry, I know it's old news now, but there must be some out there!). The cover spotlight is on "Strategy for Turbulent Times" and the first article in ...
I facilitated an all-day strategy session with a Board of Directors yesterday, and the group did very well in clarifying its strategic choices. At the end, one of the participants said he was feeling a little "unsettled" ...
I suppose I don't need ANOTHER reason to dislike strategic plans, but I was reminded of one the other day. I heard a volunteer of an association dutifully reporting to a chapter on how the national organization was makin ...
Coming up with a good strategy is hard enough, but once you do, you'll often discover that it's just the beginning. That wonderful strategic direction that you've identified has some strings attached. Like the fact that ...
Organizations cling to strategic planning (despite strong evidence of its ineffectiveness), partially because many have experienced the downside of randomness. New boss, new direction. New Board Chair, new direction. One ...
In a keynote session last week about Humanize, I once again challenged the effectiveness of strategic planning. In the book, strategic planning is one of three traditional management "best practices" that we shine a crit ...
I did some strategy work with a client this week where they were drilling down below the level of core strategic principles and actually figuring out what they were going to do differently to move in their desired direct ...
That's the response I get from the people who are very passionate about strategic planning. In case you don't know me, I think strategic planning is horrible. In Humanize, we devote nearly 8 full pages to why strategic p ...
Sohrab Vossoughi wrote a great post on HBR about Sony and how its successful strategy in the 1980s ended up being unique to that context. In other words, a winning strategy is context specific, thus it needs to evolve an ...
In an organizational context, the word "vision" will often score you a point in "buzzword bingo." And that's too bad, because like a lot of those words, it has some important meaning behind it. On the other hand, I get w ...
