“No one should develop a strategy without taking into account the effects of organizational friction. Yet we continue to be surprised and frustrated when it manifests itself. We tend to think everything has gone wrong when in fact everything has gone normally.” This from Stephen Bungay’s excellent book on getting strategy done, “The Art of […]
Execution
Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #7 – Comedy without the humour
We all know someone who never lets the truth get in the way of a good story. Many of us have elected those people into national office. But look inside a strategy session, and you’ll see grown women and men not letting reality interfere with their strategic goal. Why let the truth get in the […]
Thinking and Saying is the Easy Part
Coming up with a strategy is easy. Articulating values is easy. Defining a company purpose is easy. Articulating them well is much harder. But hardest of all? *Doing* them. Making them real. Mostly because it takes some planning, a process, discipline and a team to take them from words to reality. But if you put […]
Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #6 – No Explicit Time to Do It
Where Your Strategy Goes to Die No. 6 – Not giving it explicit time Am I the only one who loves this time between Christmas and New Year for work? I don’t have meetings. I don’t usually do a full day. But the time I have is spent in thinking bigger. It’s gold. Time to […]
Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #5 – Net Zero by 2050
Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #5 – Net Zero by 2050 The challenge with Net Zero by 2050, as many point out, is that it creates no urgency. It is too far away for people to feel the need to act. This is why “the decisive decade” – what we need to achieve in […]