Disrupting your strategic planning process

Disrupting your strategic planning process

As we ease into the end of the year, you are likely deep in the throes of your strategic planning process. I spoke to one person who was pulling her hair out last week because it was so clear that the leaders were not aligned on even how the process should work.  In...
Meaning versus money

Meaning versus money

What do you desire more, meaning or money?  A friend shared an example of how they did an ethnographic home visit to a busy mom. The mom gave a tour of the house, sharing how busy and frazzled she was. They came to the dining room table that was covered with papers...
Finding your future customer

Finding your future customer

The one thing that I’ve found disruptive organizations doing really well, with intention and focus, is that they define and chase after their future customers. Because that’s the only thing that will align the organization to make the tough choices and investments...
What is disruption?

What is disruption?

Each Monday, I’ll be posting a piece that will be a theme we carry for a week. Here’s this week’s theme – What is disruption? I’m frequently asked this simple question and I give a simple answer—it is a painful change. The reason I answer it...