Simon Reads: The Future of Power
This edition of Simon Reads is inspired by this week’s episode of The Future With Friends, where we explored the future of power – who holds it, how it shifts, and what it
This edition of Simon Reads is inspired by this week’s episode of The Future With Friends, where we explored the future of power – who holds it, how it shifts, and what it
One of the most common mistakes when it comes to identifying collective purpose is that we confuse it with an organisation’s vision. Whereas an organisation’s vision is an ‘idealistic view
Last week, I shared my strategic planning model called The Strategic Planning Pyramid (the name is accurate, if not a little obvious). It has been developed through two decades of
In last week’s post, I dove into the idea of the ‘Olympic Year’ and how we can use metaphor to gain deeper insights and uncover new opportunities. One of the
For most of human history, we have understood that different seasons require us to have a different focus. Trees don’t bear fruit year-round, crops need to be planted in spring,
The December Drift It’s easy to blame Christmas for a lack of focus in December. People are winding down, office parties are ramping up, and talk of holidays takes priority
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
Strategic and organisational planning is a time-consuming process. For larger organisations, there may be a team that undertakes strategic planning on a near-continuous basis. But even smaller clients may spend
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
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
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How scenario planning can be used to align thinking, stimulate ideas and overcome the inertia of uncertainty.