by Jamie Notter | Apr 30, 2010 | Social Media, 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...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 26, 2010 | Conflict, Managing People
A big part of conflict resolution is problem solving, and one of the biggest parts of problem solving is defining the problem. I was reminded of this when I came across this great comic over on this blog: We throw up our hands all the time about what's not working...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 21, 2010 | Social Media, Strategy
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...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 19, 2010 | Strategy
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...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 19, 2010 | Strategy
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...