Facilitating Implementation - Why strategy fails to translate into action Context - where strategy gets stuck Even when alignment is broadly in place, many organisations still struggle to move from intent to action. The issue is not usually that the strategy is poor. It is that there is a gap [...]
Creating Alignment - Moving from Understanding to Action Why alignment is harder to sustain than it is to create A recent post on this topic explored why so many organisations find themselves working hard without making the progress they expect. One of the central arguments was that agreement at [...]
Creating Alignment - Why agreement is not the same as alignment Context - where the gap really starts In the previous article, I talked about how strategy often starts to lose its shape once people leave the room. What felt aligned at the top begins to fragment as it moves [...]
Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Performance It usually starts with good intent Most strategy conversations start well. The senior team gets together, steps back from the day-to-day, and has the kind of discussion leaders need to have, where direction is debated, priorities are challenged, and the commercial realities [...]
Turning Resistance into Resilience – A Smarter Way to Lead Change Most leaders are taught to overcome resistance. Push harder. Communicate more. Tighten controls. But what if resistance isn’t the enemy of change – just badly handled information? In the previous article, we explored how organisational drag shows up early and [...]
How to Spot Organisational Drag Early – and What to Do About It Most organisations don’t stall because of a lack of ambition or intelligence. They stall because drag quietly builds up inside the system. In his recent article, Turning Drag into LIFT, Rory explored how strategic resistance acts like aerodynamic [...]
Turning Drag Into Lift: Overcoming Strategic Resistance in Organisations In aerodynamics, drag is the force that resists an object’s motion through the air, slowing its progress and demanding more energy just to maintain speed. While this is a principle of physics, it extends beyond the skies and into the boardroom. [...]
