Blog – Page 13 – Reimagine. Strategy.

February 10, 2025

Rookie Traveller

When was the last time you did something you’ve never done before or are not very good at?

As kids, trying new things was our full-time job. As adults, we gravitate to things we know how to do and focus on getting increasingly good at them. We’re rarely rewarded for seeking out the utter awkwardness and discomfort of being a rookie, and when we do, we’re surprised by how terrible we are at the new thing. We’ve lost the ‘muscle memory’ of what it feels like to learn something brand new.

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025

Filter not Inventory

Last week, I wrote about one reason not everyone in your organization will be able to see themselves clearly in your strategy. Today, we’ll explore a second reason.

Sometimes, in an effort to make a strategic plan thorough and inclusive, we see it as an inventory of everything we currently do.

A strategy is not an inventory—it’s a filter.

January 27, 2025

A Flattering Mirror

I often hear clients talk about the importance of all staff being able to “see themselves in the new strategy.”

It’s an appeal for relevance and inclusion, and I get it. But it’s the role of strategic leaders to help each person see themselves in the strategy—it’s not the role of the strategy itself to reflect everybody’s work.

January 20, 2025January 27, 2025

Strategic Leadership

Strategic planning is not just for corporations—lots of my one-on-one coaching work feels like strategy-building for individuals too. And that’s a space I’m curious about—as group activities that also apply to individuals, and vice versa.

So over the next few weeks, I’m going to write about what strategic planning is and isn’t, and I’d invite you to view it through both an individual and collective lens, as I suspect it will apply to both.

January 13, 2025January 13, 2025

Expert Companions

During the recent holidays, our family noted how babies and toddlers seem to grow in spurts — whether in height or in their developmental milestones, growth appears to accelerate during particular patches, and it’s often during vacations. (Then we agreed it’s probably because that’s when we have time to pay attention to what’s happening…)

Looking back over your life, can you notice seasons of accelerated growth? I’m curious not just what was happening to you during those times, but who you were spending time with. Can you recall the presence of guides along the way?