Tag Archives: Behaviour

We Live in Dynamic Times Natural disasters, technological disruptions, transitory advantages, fractured markets, multifarious competitors, increasingly demanding customers and fickle consumers. Thanks to the military, we have a useful descriptor for the conditions and environment these drivers create; ‘VUCA’ – volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity… … Read More →

No, it’s not an example of our bad spelling; it’s a way of overcoming ‘silo thinking’ and looking at a critical leadership quality necessary for establishing joined-up thinking and behaviour. Beyond the Function… Most big, positive changes in business – for example, bringing to life … Read More →

We want answers! We want accurate forecasts; we want to know the specific, measurable, actions that will give us the outcomes we desire; we want opportunities without the risk; we want certainty, whatever the circumstances; we want to be ‘in control’. Well intended, maybe, but … Read More →

‘Mind the gap’ is a phrase that will be familiar to passengers of subway systems the world over.  While clearly a warning in the context of passengers crossing the gap between the station platform and the train door, the same notion potentially holds the key … Read More →

Grandma is on to something.  Despite the rhetoric – annual reports, internal pronouncements and management fads awash with the platitudes of ‘transformational change’, ‘breakthrough performance’, ‘step-change results’, et al – most organisations still choose, consciously or unconsciously, the merry-go-round. In many ways this is understandable … Read More →

Making trade-offs is an integral part of developing meaningful strategies, a critical element of owning a particular space in your customers’ mind, and a powerful means of focusing your organisation on what to do to win – and just as importantly, what not to do. … Read More →

The StrataBridge approach has been forged by forces working on us all. While these forces often go unnoticed, ignored or misunderstood, they are so pervasive they shape our environment and condition our behaviours

While we have been intimately involved in the creation, development and use of these types of processes over the last 20 or more years, we think the name game is getting out of hand.