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Could Every Problem Be a Thinking Problem?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Not every problem originates in our thinking, but the assumptions we bring to a situation can influence how we understand it, respond to it, and sometimes contribute to its persistence. Could examining our thinking be one of the most important steps we take before deciding what needs…
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Everyone Has the Right Answer Until They Have to Own the Decision
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Everyone has the right answer until they have to own the decision. Responsibility changes the conversation by forcing the cost, trade-offs, implementation demands and consequences back into view. From the outside, the answer can look obvious. Fire the employee. Replace the manager. Restructure the department. Change the…
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What If We Treated Fear as a Source of Information Rather Than Something to Retreat From?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Fear can reveal gaps in our understanding, expose our need for control, or alert us to genuine risks. Learning to examine what fear is telling us, rather than automatically retreating from it, can help us make more deliberate decisions. Fear has an interesting way of influencing our…
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Sometimes Our Way Isn’t the Only Way
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We can become so accustomed to a particular way of doing things that when difficulties arise, we focus on improving the process without questioning whether the process itself still makes sense. Sometimes the greatest opportunity for progress comes not from becoming more efficient at what we’re doing,…
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Life Is Short. We Find Endless Ways to Waste It.
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We know life is short, yet we continue giving enormous amounts of time to obligations, expectations, unresolved situations and pursuits that may no longer deserve our attention. The greater cost is not simply the time we lose, but the life we could have been living, the opportunities…
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What If the Problem Isn’t Actually a Problem?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Our experience, expertise and established standards can help us recognize weaknesses, but they can also lead us to treat every departure from what we consider good practice as a problem requiring intervention. Before committing to improvement, we need to establish whether the identified weakness is materially affecting…
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The Future Doesn’t Need to Make Sense in Advance to Make Sense in Hindsight
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We need sufficient clarity to make informed decisions, but we cannot reasonably expect to know everything those decisions will eventually make possible. What we learn through experience can deepen our understanding, challenge our assumptions and reveal opportunities that were not visible when we first decided to act.…
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Don’t Give Away any More Time for Free
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Time is one of the few resources we routinely spend without asking what we are receiving in return, and because the cost is rarely visible in the moment, it is easy to underestimate how much we are giving away. The question is not whether every hour produces…
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If truth is true, there are no buts
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: What follows but cannot change something we know to be true, although it can reveal why we are reluctant to accept what that truth requires of us. The challenge is recognizing when we are genuinely reconsidering what we know and when we are simply creating enough room…
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Fear of losing a client is the single most expensive emotion in consulting
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Fear of losing a client can make us give away work, take on more than we agreed to and gradually shift the boundaries of an engagement without even realising it. In trying to hold on to the client, we may inadvertently teach them to expect more from…
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