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 [...]
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 [...]
Strategic Planning is Obsolete
Yes that’s what I said, strategic planning has become obsolete. Are you surprised that someone who has spent the last 35 years working with executives and Boards of Directors developing and implementing plans to achieve corporate goals and strategies, would now declare strategic planning a waste of time?
What is not a waste of time [...]
Improving Bottom-Line Results: Applying The Living Organization® Model
We often hear from our clients, colleagues, and online audience: “Your model really resonates with my experience of business and it seems to help explain that which is often hard to explain, but does it produce real results?”
Of course, the results business leaders are talking about are the impacts to their organization’s bottom line. The [...]
The Real Challenge of Our Financial System Today: Who is the Ends and Who is the Means?
When I was involved in the venture capital world helping to fund a number of technology startups, one thing that struck me as significant but never voiced by anyone was the disconnect of objectives between the two parties in the transaction.
Entrepreneurs start their companies because of a passion to a vision. Rarely is that vision [...]
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, [...]