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Control: The Most Potent Addiction of All
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: The need for control can create a sense of security while gradually increasing dependence, limiting initiative and reinforcing the very conditions we’re trying to prevent. Recognizing the boundaries of our responsibility and influence allows us to make more appropriate decisions without assuming that every outcome must be…
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Don’t Make Fear the Organizing Principle of Your Life
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Fear does not always look like fear; sometimes it looks remarkably like preparation, responsibility, control or good judgment. The question may not only be what decision we are making, but how much fear is influencing the choice. Fear does not always show up in a way we…
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Keep Working On Your Thing Until Persuasion Becomes Unnecessary
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Not everything valuable begins with knowing where it is going. Sometimes the work is to notice what keeps presenting itself, follow it without forcing an outcome, and know when you have taken it as far as you can. Rick Rubin is one of the most influential music…
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Worry is Cul-de-Sac Thinking
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Worry keeps the mind engaged, circling possibilities, consequences and uncertainties without necessarily moving us forward. The challenge is recognising when our thinking is helping us understand what requires our attention and when we have reached a mental dead end. Worry can masquerade as serious thinking. We can…
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Non sine periculo: A sound business motto
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Entrepreneurship is non sine periculo: risk comes with the territory. The discipline is to understand what you are risking, what could be gained or lost, and whether the risk is worth taking. Perhaps every person starting a business should be handed a crest with three Latin words…
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How to Avoid Floundering in a Sea of Indecision
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Insufficient understanding can send us towards the wrong solution, but waiting for complete certainty can leave us moving along the same course by default. The aim is to determine what must be known, what can remain uncertain and when there is enough understanding to decide responsibly. I…
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A Decision Does Not Contain a Predictive Component
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: A good decision does not tell us what will happen. It simply reflects the quality of the understanding from which the choice was made. What makes one decision better than another? When we make a decision, we are not saying, “I know what will happen.” We are…
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Clarify Before You Amplify. But Don’t Build a House There.
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: Every important decision needs clarity, but clarity has a point of diminishing returns. The challenge isn’t reaching 100% certainty, but recognizing when you already have all the understanding you need to move. Clarify before you amplify is my tag line, but it’s also the one sentence that guides everything…
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The fog of war does not only exist on battlefields
The fog of war is a phrase that originally belonged to military strategy…those moments where commanders were forced to make decisions while visibility remained partial, communication fractured, and information arrived distorted through fear, delay, assumption, ego, or incomplete observation. From a distance, war often looks like movement directed by certainty. Inside it, however, people are…
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Embrace Uncertainty as a Source of Innovation, Adaptability & Competitive Advantage
Embracing uncertainty is critical to your success, especially in this volatile, rapidly evolving business landscape. However uncertainty goes against the grain of us humans, who want to control our environment. Margie Warrell PhD, tells us that embracing uncertainty is critical to our success. In a Forbes article, written almost a decade ago she shares: We…
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