Strategic Planning is Dead - Setting a Sound Strategic Direction is Not
If you don’t know where you are going, any direction will get you there.
By now you know that I am not a big proponent of the traditional annual strategic planning process. Yet I do feel very strongly that one of the key objectives for these sessions is still critically important; perhaps even more important [...]
RealTimeExecutionWave™ - A New Decision-Making Framework
In his recent posting. Norman wrote on our belief that traditional strategic planning processes and frameworks have failed to adapt to the nature of the modern business environment, and are no longer the optimal approach to high-level decision-making within an organization.
We believe that a new decision-making framework - the RealTimeExecutionWave™ - better accelerates execution.
Building upon [...]
Strategic Planning is Dead - Long Live Strategy Execution
WARNING: If your environment doesn’t change much and the way you do business today is fundamentally the way you will be doing business in the next 5 – 10 years – DO NOT READ THIS!
In my previous blog, I declared Strategic Planning was obsolete. The current approach for defining where an organization is going and [...]
New Toyota vs. Old Toyota - It’s All About Soul
I was recently sent a blog post by Peter De Lorenzo, “The AutoExtremist”, on Toyota’s recent recall woes, or as Peter put it: “Toyota’s got trouble alright…Trouble with a capital ‘T’.”
Let me share a few paragraphs:
“The harsh reality for Toyota is that it went too far overboard in striving to become the biggest, baddest [...]
Retaining Top Talent With Non-Monetary Rewards Part 2
Part One listed four of seven things companies can do to retain their top talent without spending a lot or giving increases in compensation.
The first four from Part One are:
1) Verbal Praise
2) Achievement Awards
3) Learning and Development
4) Fun and Recreation Events
Each of these can be done at the department or company level. Each demonstrates a [...]
When Does A Company Exit a Market Based on Principle?
The issue of principles-based business decision-making came to the forefront this past week with the decision by Google to withdraw from the Chinese market following an apparent major cyber-attack on it’s systems (as well as a number of other technology firms.)
Google’s corporate motto is “Do no evil”, and it personally struck me odd (as it [...]
Consciousness in Leadership: The New Edge for 21st Century Business
I returned recently from the C3 Summit in Austin TX - that’s the Catalyzing Conscious Capitalism Summit. In attendance were some well known CEOs such as John Mackey CEO of Whole Foods, George Zimmer of Men’s Warehouse, and Casey Sheehan of Patagonia, to name just a few. In addition, we had such luminaries as Jean Huston [...]
What is the New Normal
I was just reading a blog post of a dear friend of mine Barri Carian, who poses the question The New Normal – What is it? (Visit her blog at http://www.ocmetro.com/Blog.aspx?ID=172&AuthorID=59058&t=The New Normal - What is it?
I found this a wonderful question for as she points out the phrase is being used everywhere but just [...]
Are you truly engaging your employees?
One of the most frequently asked questions we get is, how do we truly get our employees really engaged?
“Employee Engagement” is the latest hot topic in management circles but the statistics show that we are not doing a very good job. According to a recent article by Bob Donovan of Chief Executive Magazine, “only [...]
Managing the Context
From time to time we are asked questions about applying The Living Organization™ model to real world situations. I thought it would be helpful to share those queries in our blog.
Many of our employees that joined our firm as we grew don’t seem to be aligned with the original vision we founded the company on, [...]