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How to Close Accountability Gaps In Organisations
Ask a leadership team how to close accountability gaps in organisations, and most of them start in the same place, which is the wrong place. It comes up almost every time I speak at a quarterly business review or a functional leader forum: the leader raising it has...
Why Is Everyone Busy but Nothing Gets Done?
Why is everyone busy but nothing gets done. It is the question I get asked most often, usually in a corridor after a quarterly business review, from someone who lowers their voice slightly, as if the observation is a small act of disloyalty. It is not. It is usually...
How to Fix a Lack of Ownership in Cross-Functional Teams
One of my favourite questions to ask a leadership team who has brought me in to help them figure out how to fix a lack of ownership in their cross-functional teams is, “Who actually owns this?” That’s when things start to unravel real quick because people point in all...
How to Run a Strategy Roadshow That Does Not Degrade by the Fifth Session
I get asked to help design a strategy roadshow more often than almost any other format, and the trigger is rarely the calendar. Sometimes it is a board that has just approved a three-year plan and wants the direction in front of every site within a month. Sometimes it...
How to Align Middle Management on Strategic Priorities
Every CEO, CHRO, chief of staff, strategy director and head of internal communications I meet in the weeks after a strategy cascade, a manager summit or a run of divisional town halls asks a version of the same question, usually not out loud: did it land? The...
How to Help Managers Carry the Strategic Narrative
Stand at the front of a leadership briefing and ask the room a simple question: what happens to this strategy the moment it leaves the building? Most executive teams haven't thought about it, because the room they're standing in feels like the finish line. It isn't....