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Get strategy off the shelf
What’s the name of your last Shelf Strategy? You know the one – where you did all those workshops and argued over semantics. The one where you wrote...
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The Importance of Timing
I had dinner with a colleague in Melbourne last month, who proclaimed at one point that “timing is meaningless. It’s simply a human construct to...
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Strategy needs space
Strategy needs space. Time, headspace, and physical space. I’ve just returned to New Zealand after a few days of professional development in...
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How Running A Marathon Became Resilience Skills Training
I ran my first marathon in September this year, in beautiful Tauranga. It was one of the big-ticket items on my bucket list and with a milestone...
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If Everything Is A Priority, Nothing Really Is
I facilitated a workshop session recently that required attendees to link our discussion to the organisation’s strategic objectives. The results were...
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Translate Strategy to Action
All three of my kids are bookworms – influenced, I like to think, by my own love of reading. I’ve enjoyed being part of the “learning to read”...
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Money Isn’t Everything: How to Uncover False Constraints
What would you do if you won Lotto? I bet you know the answer to that question, and that you've had this conversation at least half a dozen times...
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Do More of What Makes You Awesome
Did you ever have career counselling at school? The first question you were asked was probably something like "what are you good at?" or 'what are...
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Slow Action Lets Down Good Strategy: Get moving on what matters
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week." General George S. Patton, Jr. Hi, my name is Alicia McKay, and I'm a...
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How to Take Calculated Risks: 3 Key Steps
Fear Is Like Alcohol .. because it makes parties more interesting. JUST KIDDING.Fear is like alcohol because it clouds our judgement. And when we...
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How to Defeat Strategic Overwhelm
In this week's post I want to talk about one of the drivers for strategic overwhelm. There's a few - strategic misalignment, lack of leadership,...
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The Curse of Common Sense
Common sense is a real curse when it comes to solving problems. The Oxford Dictionary defines common sense as: "Sense and sound judgement in...
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Prioritise With Intent
Prioritisation takes place every day in every organisation. However, if priorities are not set at the strategic level, judgement calls are pushed...
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Get over yourself: tackle decision bias
We are all flawed when it comes to making decisions. Like it or not, people are intuitively pretty crappy decision-makers. We often can't see outside...
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Focus Means Saying No
I came across this fantastic old video while I was procrastinating on the internet today - here's the link for those of you that can bear the crappy...