by Phil Jones | Updated 23 Feb, 2022 | Facilitating Strategy workshops, Strategy Facilitation
When facilitating a strategy workshop with a team, you need a view of where the organisation is going. Clients often say they want to work on their “Vision” or vision statement. We do that. However, they quickly realise that a “Tangible...
by Phil Jones | Updated 23 Feb, 2022 | Emergent strategy, Strategy as a learning process, Thought Provoker Newsletters, Thought provokers
.Three simple thoughts about how teh pandemic should be shaping how we think about our strategy, and how we manage our strategy (after a long break from my emails) The past two years have taught us how to manage a far more flexible workforce in dramatically changing...
by Phil Jones | Updated 23 Feb, 2022 | Facilitating Strategy workshops, Strategy Facilitation
Having facilitated strategy workshops for clients for over 25 years, a number of core principles and a common approach has emerged. It has become clear to me that there are three core components for a successful strategy workshop. They are Quality of conversation...
by Phil Jones | Updated 23 Feb, 2022 | Strategy, Thought Provoker Newsletters, Thought provokers, What is strategy
My irregular newsletter covers a wide range of ways of looking at your Strategy. This one covers: Some common, yet inadequate, views of strategy: often necessary: never sufficient…Typical characteristics or “A strategy”So, what is “Strategy”?Strategy as a...
by Phil Jones | Updated 30 May, 2020 | Agile & learning organisations, Strategy
In a learning organisation, there are three ways to look at your strategy: one is to consider your strategy as a habit. First let us explore : Strategy as a persistent pattern of behaviourStrategy as a habit (or even an addiction)Humble, yet persistent, strategy Three...
by Phil Jones | Updated 30 May, 2020 | Strategy, Thought provokers
I want to make the case for humble strategy. There is a danger that we can own and become too attached to our strategy because we have researched it, created it and eulogised about it. However we need to be dispassionate about it and even humble. ...
by Phil Jones | Updated 30 May, 2020 | What is strategy
What do people mean when they refer to strategy as a Hypothesis? Why should you treat strategy as a hypothesis? How does it help the strategy process? What are the different types of strategy hypotheses? This article explains the thinking behind strategy...
by Phil Jones | Updated 30 May, 2020 | What is strategy
When developing a strategy I believe you need an argument. Actually good strategy needs two arguments. Strategy needs an argument that explains the underlying thinking behind the strategy. Argument as in explanation. Good Strategy needs an argument amongst the...
by Phil Jones | 14 Mar, 2018 | Language of strategy
This is part of a series of articles about the language of strategy. We cannot have a discussion about strategy, and the related subject of tactics, without a military element. As we know, our word strategy has its origins in Ancient Greek. It derives from the Greek...
