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01/01/2025

May this New Year bring you joy, success, and endless opportunities — wishing you a wonderful 2025!

18/09/2024

Mission statements are critical linchpins to the strategic planning process. But they can only do their job when they are meaningful, relevant and specific enough to give teeth to the definition of why the organization exists and what it is there to do.....

Pick a strategic plan. Any strategic plan. Read the mission statement, and ask what it tells you about what makes the organization it belongs to unique. All too often, the answer to that is “…

17/07/2024

Progress is only made, however, when we are willing to explore alternative perspectives and challenge uncomfortable truths. “Stay in your lane” is very often a reaction that asserts discomfort with what is being said, rather than outright disagreement.....

The internet is an easy place to speak your mind, without consideration of the consequences of how it will be received. Escalation happens easily. Flame wars erupt without thought. It’s all t…

20/01/2024

The actual delivery of that message is its own challenge. It’s important to recognize that this takes planning, and it takes work. You are challenging perspectives that the organization holds as truths.....

Culture shapes how things get done in organizations. It also defines what gets believed, and what we accept as truths. We create a shorthand for what’s acceptable, and we broadly understand w…

23/12/2023

So what would an optimal project plan look like? How should it be structured? For the purposes of this thought experiment, it should be accessible, clear, and understandable. It should provide sufficient information to be able to comprehend the project, without being overwhelming. Above all, it should be coherent.....

Simple models can provide powerful insights. So what does a simple model look like, and how do you develop one? And in particular, how do you ensure that it focusses on the things that matter most?…

01/10/2023

Good strategy is specific, in that it states where you want to go and what success in attaining that result looks like.....

We often think we know what we mean when we use the term “strategic.” It’s self evident, right? Except, in my experience, it is very often not. Strategic is often viewed as a vagu…

27/07/2023

Getting to an answer of what you value most is an exercise in exploration, in persistence and in patience.....

We’re often pretty sure that we understand what values are. Defining them clearly and compellingly, though, is an entirely different matter. Values aren’t about defining the lowest comm…

14/06/2023

I’ve been struggling to find a solution that can work in logically managing the sequence of related ideas stored together, and the linking of ideas back and forth between topics and subjects.....

It is a little astonishing how this happens. You start with a problem, work back to first principles, figure out how to proceed forward and then find yourself back in the same vicinity of where you…

22/04/2023

As you follow your own journey, I encourage you to ask the same questions. And to avoid answers that in any way use the word, “can’t.” The choices you are wrestling with might be difficult and have different consequences.....

Where we have been is in the past. We can explore it, but we can’t change it. Where we are is shaped by how we perceive current circumstances, and how we make sense of who we are and what fle…

08/04/2023

Measures are indicators, and nothing more. Metrics can track and inform, but they can’t extrapolate and explain.....

We live in a world that wants concrete specifics. We have bosses that like measures. We have sponsors that demand proof, and want to know how you are going to demonstrate impact. And yet very often…

15/03/2023

When we place our emphasis on outcomes, the indicators are inconsequential.....

While this is likely to come across as controversial, I’m going to say it anyway: If you care most about key performance indicators, then you likely don’t care about what matters most. …