Thoughts on Strategy

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…

PowerPoint lures many a finely-honed strategy into its lair, where it then suffocates all life from it. And the ugliest of those deaths even have spreadsheets copied into the slide…

You’ve put the ring on your strategy’s finger as a leadership team. But no sooner you’ve walked out the room than a member of the leadership team presses you with…

I remember sitting in a leadership team strategy awayday some years back where the team agreed on its 14 priorities. … 14. Fourteen. … More than double the number of…

Here are 3 strategic objectives I’ve seen more than once: Employee engagement Marketing Customer retention Trouble is they’re not strategic objectives. They’re topics. Functions. At best a wish-list of stuff…