Favorite Things Holiday 2022
When most of my own clients disappear, leaving out of office messages like breadcrumbs, I figure it’s time for the annual Favorite Things edition of the blog! One great thing […]
It’s The Employee’s Fault!
We’re at that point in the year when if you haven’t already developed your strategy for 2023, at the very least you are reviewing the results for the past year. […]
Janus Strategy
An auto-antonym is a word that has at least 2 meanings that mean the opposite of each other. For example, one definition of “sanction” is to disallow. But another is […]
Surrendering to Your Calendar Works
Now that you’ve surrendered to your calendar and had time to try it out, you may have hit some road bumps. This 7 minute video wll give you some tools […]
Haters Gonna Hate Annual Strategy
What do you think of annual strategic planning? Does your organization do it? Is it productive? If you don’t do it, why not? The Hate Brigade I have been struck […]
Mind the Gap –Executive Edition
As we discussed last week, in most organizations, the strategy doesn’t make it very far beneath the C-suite. This isn’t obvious when you are part of the senior team that […]
Mind the Gap, Employee Edition
We often hear about the execution gap in strategy. Researchers have said for years that 90% of strategies fail because they don’t get executed. I’m skeptical about that number. But […]
Neutrality Can Sniff Out Bad Strategy
I was listening to a radio interview with David Cohen, an experienced Special Master. You are probably familiar with the title as it has been in the news lately. But, […]
The Low-Hanging Fruit Dilemma
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. -John F. Kennedy “Pick the low-hanging […]
Guest Post: Don’t Just Study Non-Customers. Become One.
Mike Giffin of Giffin Consulting offers this insightful guest column. Enjoy, and look up Mike on LinkedIn. Amie Devero’s recent post neatly articulates a major source of missed opportunity […]