Strategy Is Change
As I write this in mid-November, a great majority of organizations are engaged in the curious annual ritual known as “strategic planning” — the often rote process by which forecasts are honed, spreadsheets cells populated, templates turned into documents designed to guide a year’s worth of activity. If this sounds like a familiar grind for […]
99 Problems But Resources Ain’t One
Let’s say you’re faced with a choice between the thing you’ve always done and some new thing you might considering doing. It could be anything, so long as it represents change — shifting more of your marketing spend into digital, ramping up your social media presence, adding a new retail location, launching a new product or […]
Naysayers vs Soothsayers
The world is divided between soothsayers and naysayers. Visionaries and reactionaries. Agents of change and keepers of the peace. Clairvoyants gazing into crystal balls and collectors lovingly rearranging mementos in curio cabinets. While it takes all types to make the world go ’round, I know which I’d rather have in charge of my organization’s innovation […]