Assessment of the situation to devise a game plan for things to come to fruition.

the ceo magazine, business management,
Dr Marc Stigter & Sir Cary Cooper, Authors, Solving the Strategy Delusion: Mobilizing People and Realizing Distinctive Strategies

Let’s not beat about the bush. Most strategic efforts aren’t being realised successfully. Most leaders aren’t consumed with organisational strategy but are instead overwhelmed with managing day-to-day operational challenges. Most strategies aren’t distinctive and created from the Outside-In but rather from the Inside-Out. Most organisations aren’t really customer centric but are mainly sales and marketing driven. Most workforces aren’t engaged but are paralysed by inertia and collectively withdrawing extra-energies. Most values and desired behaviours aren’t being demonstrated consistently and enduringly in organisations today. What’s going on?

Here I am the owner of a company that provides Travel and Meeting Management services and I have not taken my Executive Team offsite for our annual planning session in far too many years. That changed this past week when my team and I traveled to the El Conquistador Resort in Puerto Rico for our planning session (it is a great place by the way). I didn’t care that it sounded like a vacation and nor should you - ever. We got such better results from these days together than at the past local meetings we have ever had. Here were the five biggest differences from a local meeting:

In sports a team may win by 20 points or 2 points and the game still goes in the W column. Whether the winning team was behind the whole game or ahead, the game still goes in the W column. Whether the starting quarterback or center plays every play or goes out on the first play, the game still goes in the W column.

In sports they call may them ugly wins, but they are still wins.

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