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Strategy Communication

Engaging heads hearts and hands in your strategy

Lots of time is spent developing a strategy and planning its implementation.  Yet a simple fact remains: no matter how good the thinking behind the strategy, it is a waste of time if it is not in the heads, hearts and hands of the people who need to execute it. Of course, it is helpful [...]

They don’t get the strategy

“They don’t get the strategy!” These were precisely the words the chief executive used: ‘They don’t get the strategy’. This was not a small company: it was listed on the FTSE100. It was not a particularly new strategy, as they had been implementing it for around two years. It wasn’t a particularly new management team, [...]

You can’t swim in sea salt

Do you ask your staff to boil down a message to a single page? Do you find that you are being asked to boil down and shorten down documents? “Just give me the one page version” they say. I was chatting to a client who was getting frustrated by this. He was being asked to [...]

"All plans should be burnt"

“All plans should be burnt”Recently the managing Director of a client organisation was presenting their strategy to the senior managers. He started by openly admitted that he got the phrase “All plans should be burnt” from me and said he would do the same. However, as there were smoke detectors in the room, he had [...]