This post was inspired by an exchange I had recently with a client of mine, Rob Cornish. Rob shared with me a post he’d recently written, and in it he made the point that not all corporate strategies are necessarily… Read More »Doing strategy isn’t the same as being strategic
Things I’ve been reading during work hours I found this research by the American Not For Profit, ‘Beyond Conflict‘, to be in equal parts illuminating and reassuring. Published in 2020, the research looks into political polarisation and how members of political… Read More »Overcoming Political Polarisation & ‘The Future’
Who’s in charge of strategy at your organisation? And who get’s invited to participate? For most organisations the list of people who get invited to strategic conversations is a fairly short one. I’m not entirely sure why this is but… Read More »Who currently gets to do strategy (and who else should you invite)?
At various times we’ve all wanted other people’s buy-in. We want to get stakeholders to buy into our agenda, staff to buy into our strategy, and our boss to buy into our ideas (at least according to Harvard Business Review).… Read More »Is ‘buy-in’ enough?
Last week I posted on LinkedIn asking whether local councillors should be replaced with a board of directors. Just to be clear, this isn’t my idea, but it’s something I often hear when running workshops within local government. The post… Read More »Why don’t we just replace our councillors with a board of directors?
A lot of clients, especially in local government, are dealing with significant financial constraints right now. On top of the rate cap, which has been in place for a number of years, recent inflationary pressure plus changes to Workcover and… Read More »The Delayed Implications of Big Decisions
It’s time for you to either get on the bus or get off. Are you going out or staying home? Is reading this a good use or bad use of your time? Maybe it’s too early to make that call…or… Read More »Are you a ‘Yes’, a ‘No’…or a definite ‘Maybe’?
When you look around your workplace how often do important decisions get put on ‘the back-burner’? Sometimes the back-burner is a place to put decisions that have been de-prioritised, but more often it’s a place to put decisions no one… Read More »The status quo should always be an option
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