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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


Strategy: More Interaction More Uncertainty
last post I said that I thought good and numerous interactions regarding strategy are likely more needed now in organizations than at any...
Mar 25, 2016


OUCH! Strategy
A quick search of the term strategy (noun) turned up the following definitions: A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or...
Mar 22, 2016


Performance Management Systems – Let’s Not Bother
last post focused on performance management system design and the one before that focused on doing your best to make a performance...
Mar 18, 2016


Reducing OUCH! in Performance Management Design
The design will be contrary to established patterns of formal interaction so you will have a significant change process you will need to...
Mar 15, 2016


Reducing the OUCH! in Performance Management
This means part of this post is not about things that are new but legitimizing things we do now but more or less think we shouldn’t or...
Mar 11, 2016


Performance Management: Every Interaction Matters
complexity science as it applies to understanding organizations. I had worked with systems thinking principles for quite some time before...
Mar 8, 2016


OUCH! Performance Management
Is there anyone out there that just loves the performance management system in their organization? Is there anyone out there that even...
Mar 4, 2016
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