My strategy clients are often concerned that to be a strong strategist they need to be good at accurate prediction. Let me reassure you that strategic behaviour does not require you to be clairvoyant!
It does help if you can discern signals.
Even better if you can differentiate them from lagging indicators and old news.
Continue reading “Animal Tracks”I am a fan of using imagination as a strategy tool. Sounds a bit jarring, right? Rainbows and unicorns meet logic models and spreadsheets.
Not exactly.
Continue reading “Serious Imagination”“If you are brave enough often enough, you will know disappointment.” ~ Brené Brown
If you are a Canadian hockey player or fan, you are disappointed today. (And if you’re not, here’s what you need to know: the Canadian women’s and men’s hockey teams both lost in overtime to the US to win silver instead of gold medals at the Olympics. Both. Lost. In overtime. To the US. Thank you for your condolences.)
Continue reading “Processing Disappointment”At a leadership camp in high school, we played a game called “Win as much as you can.” The punchline of the experience (that obviously made an impact, because I’m telling you about it 40 years later!) was that the “you” was plural, not singular. The winners were a team, not an individual — much to the disappointment of the individuals who thought they’d been successful in their solitary pursuit of the victory.
Continue reading “Who’s the You?”It’s Thanksgiving Monday where I live. And among other things to be grateful for, I am thankful that my family is generally happy to get together. Family gatherings are not “command performances” but are events we willingly create and look forward to.
Magnet, not mandate.
Continue reading “Magnet not Mandate”