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The Illusion of Effort: When Persistence Blinds Progress
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Persistence can create the appearance of progress when repeated effort becomes more important than understanding whether we’re achieving the intended results. Remaining committed to an objective requires more than perseverance; it also requires the willingness to assess what we’re learning, question our approach and make changes when…
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What If You’re Getting Better at the Wrong Thing?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: An organization can meet its targets, improve efficiency and execute its strategy successfully while becoming increasingly disconnected from the environment in which it operates. Strong performance may provide reassurance precisely when the organization needs to question whether its strategic direction remains relevant. Today, I participated in the…
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Good Intentions Only Go So Far…
Who we are…our approach to things…how we execute…what we would like people to experience…THIS is our brand. Whether it’s one person or a business we must be able to articulate what we are committed to doing, how we are going to do what we set out to do and what that experience might look like.…
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