Leading from the middle - when Exec aren't driving
A great question emerged in conversation with two clients recently: “is our Executive the right place to focus for developing our capability?”
Want to be better at Strategy? Play games
We're pretty keen to look to sports for doing better strategy. But instead of listening to people who play sports, be someone who plays games.
Enabling collective intelligence with space - or a fat sharpie
Governance and strategy spring from collective intelligence. After running a Board workshop yesterday in a fabulous meeting room, today I am writing about using and occupying space to enhance collective intelligence.
Balance of safety and tension in strategy workshops
Coaching needs safety, but not too much. And it needs tension, but not too much. This last few weeks I have been consciously applying this in facilitating strategy conversation with three Boards.
Apply strategy with an Accountability Matrix
Not Keanu's matrix. Geologists refer to the material in which something beautiful, meaningful or desirable is embedded as the matrix.
Shift your organisation’s cadence
Your workplace has rhythms, whether you control them, are controlled by them, or just live alongside them.