Where's the Strategy?
Association Trends did a survey of association executives and reports on it in a recent issue. It talks about their confidence in their industries, in the U.S. economy, and their projections about things like upcoming me ...
Category: Strategy
Where’s the Strategy?
Association Trends did a survey of association executives and reports on it in a recent issue. It talks about their confidence in their industries, in the U.S. economy, and their projections about things like upcoming me ...
Strategy is Hard Work
I facilitated some strategy work with a client two weekends ago, and it was hard work. I pushed them hard on identifying the missing "middle level thinking" in their strategy. They had some success, and even wi ...
Dealing with Complexity
Hugh MacLeod wrote an interesting post about complexity, citing complexity as the difference between success and failure. It's simple to fail, but you must manage complexity to succeed. He applies this theory to organiza ...
Water Follows the Contours of the Land
This was one of the most important learnings/insights that I took away from the ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting this year. It was a statement that my new favorite person, Patti Digh, made during the opening session ...
Think Strategic Planning is Bad? Try Best Practices!
Thanks Jeff for chiming in on my rant against strategic planning. It reminded me, however, that I had wanted to point to YOUR previous post about best practices so I could take my turn chiming in. Jeff quotes Dave Polla ...
A Bit of A Rant About Strategic Planning
I heard Peter Senge speak a while back and he talked about being in "a bubble." His conclusion was that bubbles (like the dot com bubble) are not destined to grow and grow and then burst. They can avoid this fa ...
Strategic Planning is Dead (Yawn….)
Maddie was the first to fire a shot in response to the double strategic planning articles that ASAE and the Center just published. The Journal of Association Leadership published "The Development of Consensus Guidel ...
Leadership and Change
Thanks to Kristin Clarke on Acronym for pointing to a good ChangeThis manifesto: People Don't Hate Change, They Hate How You Are Trying to Change Them. This is a free download, by the way (if you don't know about ChangeT ...
Mental Models and Biases in Strategy Work
The February 2008 issue of HBR (yes, I’m behind on my reading) has a fascinating article called “The Experience Trap.” The tagline for the article says “As projects get more complicated, managers stop learning from their ...