We can easily veer off track of the journey to mastery of our organizational agility. There are 5 Dangerous Detours (with tragic consequences) and 10 Mental Modes Avoid Them, outlined in this category of blogs.
We can easily end up being half-brained, with too much empasis either left or right, each being bad news and a dangerous detour with potentially tragic consequences.
We can easily default to simplicity this side of complexity, which is bad news and a dangerous detour with potentially tragic consequences.
We can easily give into the presure of premature closure, which is bad news and a dangeous detour with potentially tragic consequences.
We can easily lapse into "either/or" propositions, which is bad news and a dangerous detour with potentially tragic cosnequences.
We can easily talk ourselves out of planning, which is bad news and a dangerous detour with potentially tragic consequences.
Organizational Agility relies upon an integrated system of crucial components, interfacing and interacting with each other to provide you the agility you need, when you need it. Often times, we don’t know that we lack agility until it is too late (Making Friends with Organizational Agility).
How much time, energy, attention, paperwork, systems, software and, above all else, discipline, do we invest in the financial accounting of our businesses? A lot. And by comparison, how much do we invest in the “strategic accounting” (translating strategy and execution into traction) of our business?
How serious are you ,individually and collectively, about being fully in the driving seat of your organizational agility, translating strategy and execution into traction?
In his 1992 book, Mastery, George Leonard defines mastery as, “the mysterious process during which what is at first difficult becomes progressively easier and more pleasurable through practice” and outlines the nature of the journey: Read the rest of this entry »
Execution Excellence: Missing-in-Action“We hear a lot about execution these days, which is encouraging. But strategy and execution are only as good as the traction they create and sustain, on a higher road of a breakthrough journey."
Mike's Own Journey“As an executive and then CEO of small-to-medium sized and fast-moving businesses, I experienced an ever increasing sense-of-void. As the pace of business and change accelerated, my experience of most coaches, consultants and trainers coming into my office offering to help was that they didn’t really understand the nature of the seat I sat in everyday..." read more...
See Mike giving one of his keynote speeches, Breaking Through to a New Future .