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How to Prepare for a Strategy Retreat When a Big Decision Is on the Table
If you're wondering how to prepare for a strategy retreat with a genuinely big decision attached, here's the honest answer: most of the work that decides the outcome happens weeks before anyone books a flight. Board chairs, directors, CEOs, chiefs of staff and heads...
Outside Perspective on Strategy: Why Capable Teams Need Someone Who Wasn’t in the Last Decision
Board chairs, directors and CEOs heading into a strategy retreat often say some version of the same thing: "We want an outside perspective on strategy." Fair enough. But ask what that means in practice, and the answer is often an hour of good content, not a change to...
Constructive Challenge in the Boardroom: How Directors Test Strategy Without Undermining Management
Every board says it values constructive challenge in the boardroom. Most directors do challenge, too. Ask a chair, a CEO or the company secretary organising the next strategy retreat, and they'll all tell you the room isn't short on good questions. The problem isn't...
Board Strategy Day: Why Management Brings Three Options and Only One Answer
Picture the room at a board strategy day. It's full of capable, serious people: the chair, directors, the CEO and CFO, the chief of staff who assembled the pack, the company secretary keeping a careful record of what actually gets resolved. And more often than anyone...
How to Stress-Test a Major Strategic Decision Before You Commit to It
Before a strategy retreat or board strategy day most board chairs, directors, CEOs and CFOs want to know: how do you stress-test a strategic decision when the paper in front of you is thorough, the numbers hold up, and the people presenting it are the ones you trust...
Execution Discipline for Long Programs: Building Momentum That Outlasts the Launch
Execution discipline for long programs is not the same problem as execution discipline for a six-week rollout. A short initiative can survive on launch energy because it finishes before that energy runs out. A multi-year program cannot: it will outlive its launch...