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Learning and Development – Roles
We also discussed using what is currently happening regarding learning at senior levels in organizations as a good source of information...
May 13, 2016


Learning and Development – The Mystery of Content Focused Events
In the last post we looked at what so often happens in organizations when learning and development initiatives designed with a context...
May 10, 2016


OUCH! Learning and Development
Our focus is learning and development that deals with conceptual topics and complex behaviors; things like leadership, communication,...
May 6, 2016


Strategy – Random Thoughts to Wrap Up
It has also been a challenge writing these posts. I knew that my perspective / ideology on organizations was not typical yet it matched...
May 3, 2016


Strategy and Power
So power, one of the most complex, influential and meaningful experiences of organizational life tends to be hidden from our day to day...
Apr 29, 2016


Reducing OUCH! In Strategy con’t
The last post focused on the first of four quite typical and normal things that happen once the organization strategy has been...
Apr 26, 2016


Reducing OUCH! in Strategy
We’ve focused on a number of problems associated with the typical way strategy is understood in organizations. Let’s take a look at how...
Apr 22, 2016


Individual Strategy – A Thinking Tool
The last post looked at an individual perspective on strategy with the start point being a focus on excellence. It was mentioned that...
Apr 19, 2016


Strategy – An Individual Perspective
Most of us work within an organizational strategy that we had no involvement in creating. There is nothing wrong with this, it makes...
Apr 15, 2016


OUCH! Character is the New Strategy
Some time ago I was meeting with someone after a very cool meeting with a small group of people and she asked me, ‘Why do you think...
Apr 12, 2016


OUCH! In the Creative Tension Model con’t
In the last post we identified two key additions/changes to the thinking regarding strategy that were popularized by Robert Fritz and...
Apr 8, 2016


OUCH! In the Creative Tension Model
A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim. The art of planning and directing overall military operations and...
Mar 29, 2016
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