Thoughts – Page 32 – Reimagine. Strategy.

May 30, 2022May 30, 2022

Hire for Adaptability

Have you experienced a moment of insight that felt like an accomplishment, then upon arrival someone with your best interest at heart says, “You’re still thinking too small. What’s past that step?”

I watched this happen in a recent group coaching conversation. In response to the question, “What would be an audacious step in your business?” someone said they wanted to be on Oprah’s Soul Sunday and another said they wanted to be on Brené Brown’s Unlocking Us podcast. I thought, “Wow — good for you!” until the leader said, “Oprah and Brené? They’ve been around awhile — who’s bigger and next?” Stttrrrrreeeetttttccchhhhhhh!

May 23, 2022May 19, 2022

Invent or Improve?

When a process or product or idea isn’t working, do you want to tweak the design slightly or throw it out and start over?

This is a distinction I’m learning about through my work with the Adaptability Quotient tool. It’s an assessment that measures individual and team adaptability, and one of the results is an aggregate measure that reflects if a team prefers to approach adaptability through a lens of “utilize and improve” and/or “explore and transform.” The former will lead you to approach change systematically and build on existing solutions, whereas the latter would have you trying different ways of working and experimenting with newly invented solutions.

May 16, 2022June 8, 2022

Tips for Regathering

As people return to in-person gatherings, I’m hearing variations of, “It doesn’t matter what we do. We just need to be together.”

That feeling strongly resonates with me, but as a facilitator I am still curious what we’ll actually do. Here are a few considerations I’m applying to my workshop designs:

May 9, 2022May 9, 2022

The Benefits of Doing

I have a slide that I use in multiple decks. It looks like this:

May 2, 2022May 2, 2022

The Core Driver of Effective Strategy

Strategy is more about what you believe than what you do.

If you believe there is enough to go around, rather than believing that resources are scarce, you can develop strategies that are grounded in possibility and generosity rather than constantly striving to play a stressful zero-sum game. Can you see how it’s a question of perception?