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”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?”“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life’s morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.” ~ Carl Jung
Continue reading “New Levels of the Same Game”As I type this, it’s the first day back to work after a couple of glorious weeks of family time. And although a quieter house and cooking for fewer people is easier, I wasn’t yet craving getting back into routine. (Having to brush the snow off my car both before and after my 6 a.m. gym class did not improve my mood this morning!)
Continue reading “Know the Game You’re Playing”