Strategy as a Practice

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 everythingContinue reading “Choose — and Change — Your Metaphors Intentionally”

Refining Strategy Into Leadership

How can executive teams utilize their strategy to enhance their leadership capabilities and followership?

Building Strategy Capability: Your Practice

What does “the practice of strategy” look like at your company? Who does it? How and when do they do it? How is it organized? What difference does it make? How is it changing? For too many companies, the answers are unclear, and the practice is a bit mysterious. Or the answers are clear, butContinue reading “Building Strategy Capability: Your Practice”

A few years ago, grudgingly acknowledging the physical changes of middle age, I decided to modify my fitness routine, with less cardio/endurance activity and more focus on strength and flexibility. Step One was taking my first yoga class. This was predictably awkward, with my ignorance and immobility combining for some truly cringe-worthy moments in thoseContinue reading “Strategy as a Practice”