Bringing Innovation Down to Earth
Years ago, I worked for a Big 5 consulting firm and did a lot of strategic planning projects. In one case I remember we facilitated four three-day workshops with the top 25 executives in a ...
View ArticleHow the Mighty Have Fallen
A few months ago, we got a call from a company asking for help with their balanced scorecard – something that happens every day. What was surprising was that the company was one that was a former ...
View ArticleThe Trouble with “Change Management”
A few years ago I was facilitating a post-merger integration process for an expanding publicly-traded utility company that had bought a smaller, rural utility in order to expand its territory. The ...
View ArticleWhat’s the Value in Having Values?
“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” – Roy E. Disney Values can sometimes seem like the stepchild of strategic planning. The guts of a strategic plan can ...
View ArticleIn Search of the Canadian Hippo
During the years we lived in Canada, my family became fond of Canadian Heritage Moments. These were sixty-second vignettes that depicted formative moments in Canadian history. One of my ...
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