You love your national sport. Seeing the Jamaican (or West Indian) flag soar above a global stage fires you up. But you also see that in football and cricket, we’ve fallen as a country. Could it be related to a lack of long-term thinking? When the West Indies men’s cricket team dominated the world in …
Succession Planning and Long-Term Strategy
Many HR Professionals bemoan the fact that their companies do little succession planning. You wish it were widespread in your company, but the truth is that long-term thinking on the order of 10-30 years is not a formal affair. Usually, nothing is written. As such, when staff complains, you have nothing to tell them. This...
Ep 16.5 Is There Actually a Valid “Just Keep Things Going” Strategy?
Your organization is about to conduct its annual strategic planning process. From all indications, this will be another “business as usual” effort, intended to check the box. The time horizon, after all, will only extend for four years, maximum. No-one expects anything out of the ordinary to emerge from it – this is a ritual …
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