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 [...]
Strategic Planning is Obsolete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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thoughts on Innovation vs. Branding Strategy
A post over at The Blake Project’s blog discusses the issue of a a strategy based on Innovation, vs a Branding strategy. The author, in my opinion, sets up a strawman argument as to what an innovation strategy is (using The Sharper Image as an example), and then goes on to extol the value of [...]
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, [...]