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Michael Davis, retired officer, Nestle USA
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Choose — and Change — Your Metaphors Intentionally
Whether you are formulating strategy in a small group or activating strategy throughout your organization, selecting effective metaphors can accelerate sense-making and shared understanding. It’s worth investing your creative energy to choose the most apt metaphor(s), and to know when that metaphor has run its course. I use the term “metaphor” broadly to include everything…
Who’s Minding Your Crown Jewels?
Maximizing the value of strategic assets and capabilities.
Why Would Culture Eat Strategy for Breakfast?
I have an exciting engagement right now with a client that is very intentionally integrating cultural development into its enterprise strategy and corporate narrative. This collaboration has led me to revisit the famous line attributed to Peter Drucker, that Culture eats Strategy for breakfast. I appreciate the wisdom in this statement: an organization’s culture is…
Refining Strategy Into Leadership
How can executive teams utilize their strategy to enhance their leadership capabilities and followership?
Right-Sizing Strategy Capability and Function for Mid-Size Companies
The nature and practice of strategy in mid-size businesses (say from $20 million revenue to $500 million) is fundamentally different than in both smaller and larger ones. On one hand this sounds obvious, but the practical application is a bit more nuanced, and not always appreciated in my experience. How can leaders in mid-size businesses…
Strategy Informs. Narrative Engages. Leaders Need Both.
Having a well-defined, coherent strategy is essential in a growing business to establish priorities and direct behavior across an increasing number of employees. Indeed, strategy is necessary, but by itself, it is insufficient from a leadership perspective. Why? Because even the most brilliant business strategy is transactional rather than relational. It is fact-based, data-driven,…
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