Failed strategies, like nuclear incidents and plane crashes, only rarely occur due to one catastrophic exogenous shock. These disasters, along with industrial accidents, oil spills, sinking ships and other man-made calamities, usually being the result of the cumulative effect of many smaller – individually insignificant … Read More →
Tag Archives: Entropy
A Liberating Structure…
Do you have a strategy? And what are your chances of executing it? Is it based on penetrating insights and clear choices about direction, or is it endless analysis or superficial PowerPoint template-style presentations? Is there a rich dialogue taking advantage of the full spectrum … Read More →
The Transformation Roller Coaster – Grandma’s Advice
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 →
Trade-offs – in B&W or Colour?
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 →
Ignore them or respect them.. Three Laws.
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