Strategy Sightings, Episode Two

Strategic planning isn’t about predicting the future. It’s about preparing for it — with enough courage and clarity to move forward even when the path ahead isn’t fully visible. (It never is!)

In this second episode of “strategy sightings,” I’d like to highlight the work of two client organizations I admire — Waterloo Region Community Foundation (WRCF) and Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA). They didn’t wait for perfect clarity to pursue a strategic direction. Instead, they acted on signals, took bold stances, and shaped the terrain as they moved through it.

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Strategy Sightings, Episode One

I want strategy development to serve a much more useful purpose than crossing something off a leader’s to-do list.

So, I’ve set about looking for strategy “in the wild” — watching for how it’s being implemented in practical, helpful ways in real life.

 At the risk of sounding partisan, I want to use Mark Carney, the newly elected Canadian Prime Minister, as my first example.

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