Strategic Planning is Obsolete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, [...]
Even Welsh recognizes The Living Organization
Well perhaps he didn’t exactly call it that, but in a recent article in Financial Time (3/12/2009) Jack Welch who is regarded as the “father of the shareholder value movement” said said it was “a dumb idea” for executives to focus so heavily on quarterly profits and share price gains.”
What is he really saying about [...]
The Living Organization™ Model – The Spirit
The key to success is to maximize energy contribution while minimizing the loss of energy as it flows through the system on its way to becoming valued goods and services. But the model is not complete if we think of the flow of energy as just one frequency.
Like light passing through a prism the energy [...]
The creation of The Living Organization™ model
During my 35 plus years of leading organizations and helping other CEOs lead their organizations I have been seeking to understand and then explain what is required to successfully create sustainable growth. The Living Organization™ model is the culmination of that journey.
I have chosen to name my upcoming book “The Living Organization ™: the Physics [...]