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Turn "They should" conversations into "We should" conversations

By Chris Grams
January 27, 2011 at 1:20pm

Imagine for a minute you are a member of the senior management team of a 5000-person, global organization. Your CEO has asked you and the entire senior management team to participate in an emergency week-long retreat.

He doesn't reveal the purpose of the meeting ahead of time, but as he kicks off the week, it is clear he is livid.

It's Time for Some New Habits--the Year of the Meaning Organization

By Umair Haque
January 3, 2011 at 9:43am

This time of year we tend to subject ourselves to tough review. We zero in on our practices and tendencies and resolve to take up new, positive habits--and, more importantly, to break the bad. It can be a productive exercise if approached with a clear eye and dedicated follow-through. My question: why don't we subject our institutions to the same ritualistic rigor?

Written by: Alex Todd on June 10, 2010 at 11:30am

A brilliant mindflip from the blog of Roger Martin, the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto:

"Think about a strategic option as being just a happy story about the future. It doesn't have to be right and it doesn't even have to be sensible. It just has to result in your organization being in a happy place in the future. In fact, if it were absolutely right and utterly sensible, your company would probably already be doing it."

Read More http://blogs.hbr.org/martin/2010/06/strategies-as-happy-stories.html

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Playscripting your strategy

By London Business School
April 10, 2010 at 6:13pm

Michael G. Jacobides feels that strategy might best be cast as a dramatic playscript that can help cope with a shifting landscape, and motivate employees far better than traditional strategic plans.

Read the full article on London Business School's site.

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