Recent data (see IABC Study) suggests that about half of employees in most companies do not understand the business strategy of their company. Sad, but not surprising.
Creating engagement and alignment among your team is the central job of leadership. How can you expect to excel if half of your people don't know what your strategy is?
Will your next conversation be a game changer? Or will it produce more of the same? Here’s my thesis, based on a lot of business and life experience: The breakthrough that you really want in your business WILL ONLY OCCUR in a CONVERSATION. The opportunities that are all around you, right now (see previous post), present…
In early January, my household begins to buzz with anticipation for the start of American Idol. Since the show coincides with the bedtime routine for my daughters, we set our cable DVR to record each episode and then watch the show as a family over the next few days. Over several years of watching the…
I’m working with a finance organization to help them create the culture and capacity to be trusted business partners. The organization supports several diverse business units and consists of a VP, directors, managers, and staff. Their vision is to grow well beyond the traditional role of finance to be true partners leading and supporting the…
According to USA Today, Major League Baseball Commisioner is agonizing about whether to suspend Alex Rodriguez for use of banned performance enhancing drugs. What does this have to do with business models? This case gets at the moral dimension of business models …
Need a New Strategy Process? Eight Questions to Ask Changes in the business environment demand changes in how we make and execute strategy. Let’s examine just a few of the factors that impact our approach to strategy.
Interesting quote in Chief Learning Officer magazine article about the importance of employee engagement. "You end up with solutions that sometimes are not designed to work in the real world because no one working the frontline jobs was asked about whether this would work or not," Kanazawa said. "So you have a lack of engagement,…
