- Adaptive Planning
For some time now, clients have been experiencing “burnout” with the traditional strategic planning process. As I have questioned them about their experience, the complaints are that it is too expensive and too time-consuming. But the expense and time commitment has not changed since organizations first started doing strategic ...
- Why do Strategic Planning?
I recently wrote an article in my newsletter that helped me articulate why I love strategic planning so much. At the end of a good planning process, you can be sure that no longer will you hear “because that’s the way we’ve always done it” as a rationalization for decisions or behaviors. At its best, [...]
- Hiring a Consultant
I recently had the opportunity to sit on the “other side of the table” and interview prospective strategic planning consultants for an organization on whose board I sit. I learned a great deal from that experience about what makes a good consultant. It is that rare combination of clarity (written proposal presents a clear process and ...
- Introducing Adaptive Planning
Adaptive Planning is a new approach to planning that combines the best qualities of strategic planning with the important principles of adaptive leadership. Some say strategic planning is a dying methodology. Organizations invest half a year in a huge effort to gather information and create a plan that often feels irrelevant a year from when it ...
- On Listening
In this cyber world of tweets, Facebook, LinkedIn, and blogs, we have become so concerned about developing messages to put out to the world, that we are forgetting the value of listening. It’s hard to listen to tweets and posts and blogs. A smart colleague once observed that even sending email is more like a monologue [...]