The next step after beginning to learn from environment is to fill in the puzzle of how to become what we want to be. If the gap between what is and what we want is large so is the puzzle. More pieces require more researching. More information will need gathering. The plan will need many… Read More
Do You Look or Do You See?
To look at something means to gaze your eyes upon or acknowledge something’s presence. In order to see, not only does one look at the object but we also understand it and pay attention to it. The roots of the word look go back to before 90CE. The verb comes from the Middle English loke… Read More
Our Passage
What we were, are and become are the cobblestones along the passage of our lives. Each step we take along our path takes us out of the past and into the future. Our actions set the stones along the way. Our decisions are the mortar setting the stones in place. Our reflection on our… Read More
How do We Make Our Vision Real?
The impetus to explore is inherent within us. It is born out of our sense of wonder and not knowing we should fear the unknown. After coming out of the womb we breathe, move, eat and poop followed by opening our eyes at which point our exploration starts in earnest. We explore through our touch,… Read More
Our Vision Breathes Life into our Actions
Our vision is alive right here and now or it isn’t. We have to continually look at today’s problems in the light of our future aspirations. When we have a vision we are passionate about, it breathes life into our work in the present. Having a vision imbued with passion allows us to adjust our… Read More
Knowing Why Creates the How
Our vision gives us direction and orients our actions on a tactical level. It connects us to the world beyond our lives and times. It gives a why. As Viktor Frankl indicates, if we know “why” we exist, we will be able to bear almost any “how.” In the midst of an ever changing situation… Read More
What is your Grand Strategy?
“It’s not what the vision is, its what the vision does.” Peter Senge The imagination is an amazing thing. It allows us to see the future and reconstruct the past. It helps us to understand what we can not directly experience while creating the folly of misunderstanding or miscommunication. It can give us pleasure and… Read More
What is this Strategy Stuff?
Sometimes at work we hear about strategy meetings. The executives have a strategy meeting. Corporate managers can have an off-site strategy meeting. Managers in a retail store or supervisors in a coffee shop can have strategy meetings. What they heck is strategy and why do people meet about it? The dictionary indicates strategy is a… Read More
We Have an Opportunity to Change
A group at work started some sessions to establish our vision for the function we perform. The individuals in the group range from quiet to expressive. They all have skills with some specialization learned over years. A few things struck a chord that resonated with me and the topic of this blog, Managing the Business… Read More
Our vision breathes life into our daily activities.
As Peter Senge points out in the Fifth Discipline, when there’s no shared vision within a company, there’s no common identity or goal amongst the employees. As employees, we can see this lack of vision. Division objectives are set without taking into account operational capability and efficiencies. Departmental goals are disjointed accomplishing an improvement here… Read More
Business of You 