Thanks for this post Svyatoslav (the Peter Skillman experiment was fascinating!). It reinforces to me the need for leaders to focus on people first and fundamentally - and to create the space and conditions for conversations to thrive and shared understanding to develop. It's too easy for time pressures and the desire for quick answers and results to curtail this, to the longer-term detriment of the organisation's health and capabilities.
I've actually participated in a group setting with this task. It was interesting to see everyone around the room and how they handled it. Anyway unfortunately school and work drive the creativity right out of us in so many ways.
Unfortunately we're still operating on that model in so many ways even within businesses because I would argue a lot of them do not have strategic thinkers even now.
Teams work best when each member depends on the others to achieve a common goal. If they don’t have a shared goal or need to collaborate to be successful, they’re not a team.
Thanks for this post Svyatoslav (the Peter Skillman experiment was fascinating!). It reinforces to me the need for leaders to focus on people first and fundamentally - and to create the space and conditions for conversations to thrive and shared understanding to develop. It's too easy for time pressures and the desire for quick answers and results to curtail this, to the longer-term detriment of the organisation's health and capabilities.
Many thanks for the comment, David. I’m constantly amazed at how many different problems strategy can solve.
I've actually participated in a group setting with this task. It was interesting to see everyone around the room and how they handled it. Anyway unfortunately school and work drive the creativity right out of us in so many ways.
Our schools were created decades ago for a totally different purpose. Business needed skilled workers at the time, not strategic thinkers.
Unfortunately we're still operating on that model in so many ways even within businesses because I would argue a lot of them do not have strategic thinkers even now.
Teams work best when each member depends on the others to achieve a common goal. If they don’t have a shared goal or need to collaborate to be successful, they’re not a team.
And strategy provides this common goal – and meaning
FELICES WHERE STRATEBY ISN,T BORN CALLABORATION DIES