by Phil Jones | Updated 18 Oct, 2017 | Communicating & Socialising Strategy, Strategy communication
“They don’t get the strategy!” These were precisely the words the chief executive used. ‘They just do NOT get the strategy!’. This was not a small company: it was listed on the FTSE100. So what was the situation? It was not a particularly new...
by Phil Jones | Updated 4 Jan, 2018 | Socialising strategy, Strategy as a learning process, Thought provokers
There was a question on a LinkedIn forum recently – “What is a good strategy?” Many have taken that to mean, “What is a good business strategy?” – but I want to widen this, to be a behavioural view of strategy… A view of...
by Phil Jones | Updated 4 Jan, 2018 | Communicating & Socialising Strategy, Socialising strategy
Our clients love the idea of socialising strategy, rather than merely communicating their strategy. They understand the distinction between socialising and communicating strategy. When they are socialising their strategy it makes a big difference to how they think...
by Phil Jones | Updated 2 Jan, 2018 | Planning communication, Strategy communication
How do you prepare your strategy communication plan? Here are six detailed questions to help you plan and prepare to communicate & socialise your strategy. First, the challenge Years ago, I the organisation I worked for did some research about the understanding of...
by Phil Jones | Updated 2 Jan, 2018 | Communicating & Socialising Strategy
Strategy does not exist in plans: it exists in people’s heads. If the strategy is not in their heads when they make decisions, then what is being implemented? Certainly not your strategy. Scary isn’t it? The source of the problem is we think telling...
by Phil Jones | Updated 4 Jan, 2018 | Organisations are Social systems
In this article, I explore the idea of, metaphorical, dark matter and dark energy, in organisational success and organisational performance. Jim Collins, (Author of Good to Great and Built to last) suggests we have missed this important dark matter. I offer ways you...
by Phil Jones | Updated 21 Oct, 2020 | Thought Provoker Newsletters
This article should provoke your thoughts about learning from your projects and to get improve how you implement those “Lessons learnt”. It includes a checklist that a client found really useful; a checklist that you can apply during any project or...
by Phil Jones | Updated 30 May, 2020 | Agile & learning organisations, Decision Making & Decision Taking
Do you learn from failure? Wouldn’t it be better to learn, before they fail? This article is about how to better learn from your projects, and be better at implementing those “Lessons learnt”. It includes a checklist that a client found really...