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Sometimes you can tell from the name of something what it’s all about. I think you can tell from the name of StrategyCentral that I think having a strategy, thinking strategically, and action strategically are all pretty central to effectiveness. And yet, it’s not enough to have a strategy…even a beautifully worked out one. Acting on [...] One of the most important ongoing conversations a leader has is the one that keeps the mission on the front burner. As this critically important conversation becomes less frequent or more muddled the likelihood that the mission is accomplished decreases. How do you have the conversation? I say “all the time and in as many [...] “To reach people no one else is reaching we must do things no one else is doing.” That line seems like a no-brainer. Obvious. And yet, when I heard Craig Groeschel say that at Willow’s Leadership Summit last year I scrambled to write it down and then had trouble thinking about anything else for the rest [...] How does arriving where you’ve already been sound? Depends I guess. If you like where you’ve been, you might want to go there again. After all, there are places we’ve been that we love going back to. At the same time, as a metaphor for vision…most of us are dreaming of arriving somewhere we’ve never [...] Keeping an eye on the effectiveness of strategy is essential. Clarifying what a win is and launching strategic steps designed to produce that win are essential to organizational success. Evaluating effectiveness is just as important. Have you ever slowed down long enough to evaluate whether your strategy is actually working? Most organizations never really get around [...] Think you know what actually is? Last Friday’s 20/20 featured an interesting segment highlighting a conversation with Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, authors of SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. Turns out there’s a lot more to the global warming story and that Al Gore’s effort to [...] Every organization has underlying assumptions that need to be examined. Why? Because unexamined assumptions are often at the root of issues that come back to haunt organizations everywhere. If you haven’t heard this portion of Andy Stanley’s talk, “Recent Random Thoughts on Leadership,” this becomes required listening for today. You can listen in right here. When was the last time you examined your assumptions? How about your organization’s assumptions? An assumption, you remember, is a fact or statement taken for granted. Why do assumptions need to be examined? Looking back at history, it’s easy to see many that turned out to be nowhere near correct. For example, the earth is [...] Gary Hamel spoke recently at the Willow Creek Leadership Summit. Knowing his flair for language and keen insights into organizational design, I was anticipating quiet a stir…on the heels of his talk. And I was not disappointed. It was a talk that generated a lot of interaction. Want a sample of the kinds of things he [...] When is it time to take a look at the strategy that drives what you do? Do you wait until it crashes? Or do you take a look at it even when it seems to be firing on all cylinders? Scott Anthony, author of The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work, suggests [...] |
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