Roxie, our English Springer Spaniels is very fond of chasing squirrels. She sits on our deck looking down on the fence line waiting for a squirrel to run along the top of the…
Strategy
It wasn’t too long ago that I wasn’t at all interested with history. It seemed so irrelevant. I didn’t want to know what had already happened, I focused on what was ahead, and…
I have typically thought of my vision as a fixed point in the future. It is something to focus on, a beacon in the night. Its fixed position helps to set out plans…
Has the pace of change accelerated to the point that long term planning is no longer valuable? When I started working in the strategy field, most strategic planning horizons spanned three to five…
I wrote last week about what makes up a good strategy. I am following up this week with some illustrations of what isn’t a good strategy. By this I don’t mean strategies that…
Strategy is vitally important and creating a good one is challenging. The word strategy has an aura around it. The best leaders are said to be strategic but what do we mean by…
An important question came up in the recent GOST webinar. What is the difference between OKR’s and the GOST Model? It is a great question because they are very similar and they have a…
The GOST model from Rich Horwath is an excellent framework to map how to move from goals to the actions required to fulfill them. I wrote about the GOST model in a previous…
In our previous post, we discussed communicating our vision. Our attention now shifts to translating the vision into results. In times of crisis when we are under stress, our natural temptation is to…
I was walking to lunch in Portland’s Pearl district the other day. As I passed the construction site for a new block of condos, I noticed a couple of workers attaching a steel…