How many times has this conversation happened to you?

YOU: “How’s everything going on the Project?’

COLLEAGUE: “Great!  I took all of the feedback, made the changes, and it’s done.”

YOU: “Thank you so much! I see how hard you worked on it and I can’t wait to see it on Friday.”

But when you actually look at the project work and review everything that was supposedly “done” your realize at best it might be half-way done leaving you frustrated and upset that you now have to re-arrange your schedule and priorities to do someone else’s work to get the project really done.

Fast Follow, Fire?

One of the foundations of strategic business thinking frameworks used by leaders and strategists is called the Five Archetypes of Business Strategy which was presented in a landmark Harvard Business Review article called “Your Strategy Needs a Strategy” by Martin Reeves, Claire Love, and Philipp Tillmanns.  The authors describe five different and unique archetypes or patterns of strategies that businesses can execute to meet their goals and objectives including:

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Why Is There No Conflict on My Team?

During the past several months, I have been the lead consultant on a major engagement to develop and provide leadership skills to middle-level managers dealing with the realities of the VUCA world of 2016 and beyond.  The learning journey has been instructionally designed to include eLearning pre-work, live classroom discussion, business leadership simulations, and application back to the real world.  We are delivering the engagement in groups of about 50 participants at a time and for each group we tailor the entire journey to their specific needs and current business challenges.  This past week, one of the participants shared a current challenge that was fascinating to explore from a business leadership perspective.

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