Cultivating Strategy

Last Monday I suggested that strategic planning is skewed (in an unhealthy way) towards relevance. On Wednesday, I made the case that social media has some lessons for us in this area–the way social media uses continuous listening reveals a missing link in...

The Missing Link in Strategic Planning

Monday's post talked about the relationship between strategic planning and relevance. In short, the typical process we use for strategic planning (scan-plan-implement-evaluate) actually skews us towards remaining merely relevant, as opposed to advancing our...

Strategic Planning Is Worse than Dead: It's Relevant

This was one of the epiphanies I came to in preparing for the session Maddie Grant and I did in California last week. For years I had been trying to make the argument that strategic planning was dead. The process, while well intended, wasn't producing consistently...
Jamie Notter