A Bit of A Rant About Strategic Planning

by | Aug 11, 2008 | Strategy

I heard Peter Senge speak a while back and he talked about being in "a bubble." His conclusion was that bubbles (like the dot com bubble) are not destined to grow and grow and then burst. They can avoid this fate, however, ONLY if the people inside the...

Strategic Planning is Dead (Yawn….)

by | Aug 7, 2008 | Strategy

Maddie was the first to fire a shot in response to the double strategic planning articles that ASAE and the Center just published. The Journal of Association Leadership published "The Development of Consensus Guidelines for Strategic Planning in...

Leadership and Change

by | Jul 31, 2008 | Change, Leadership, Strategy

Thanks to Kristin Clarke on Acronym for pointing to a good ChangeThis manifesto: People Don’t Hate Change, They Hate How You Are Trying to Change Them. This is a free download, by the way (if you don’t know about ChangeThis, go check them out). I read the...

Mental Models and Biases in Strategy Work

by | Jun 10, 2008 | Strategy

The February 2008 issue of HBR (yes, I’m behind on my reading) has a fascinating article called “The Experience Trap.” The tagline for the article says “As projects get more complicated, managers stop learning from their experience.” Yikes! They ran a computer...

Overthinking Strategy

by | Jun 3, 2008 | Strategy

I am settling into my new job (translation: I’m diving in head first!), so blog posts are still slow in coming these days, and once again I’ll rely on others to do the heavy lifting. Today I point to a post on the Brand Militia blog about strategy. The...

Killing the Sacred Cow

by | Apr 29, 2008 | Strategy

I am catching up on reading–just getting to the March issue of Associations Now–and in the CEO to CEO section in the back, they ask the question "If you could slay any sacred cow at your organization, what would it be?" Nelson Fabian of the...
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