Organizations as Dynamic Webs of Conversation Juanita Brown and David Isaacs

Conversational leadership takes root when leaders see their organizations as dynamic webs of conversation and consider conversation as a core process for effecting positive systemic change. Taking a strategic approach to this core process can not only grow intellectual and social capital, but also provide a collaborative advantage in our increasingly networked world. Credit: Juanita Brown … Continue reading Organizations as Dynamic Webs of Conversation Juanita Brown and David Isaacs

When Coffee Chats Become Catalysts for Change What makes a conversation strategic?

Gurteen Knowledge Blog   November 15, 2023, 16:20What makes a conversation strategic? At its core, a strategic conversation has the potential to influence the future direction of an individual, organization, community, society, or even the world. Strategic conversations are not your average meeting or brainstorming session. They go beyond addressing short-term operational issues to tackling vital challenges … Continue reading When Coffee Chats Become Catalysts for Change What makes a conversation strategic?

Henry Mintzberg Canadian academic and author on business and management

Henry Mintzberg, Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Canada, is an internationally renowned speaker and author on organization and management. On management, organizations and more | Henry Mintzberg WikipediaHenry MintzbergBlogHenry MintzbergRSS FeedHenry MintzbergTwitter@Mintzberg141YouTubeHenry MintzbergGoogleHenry Mintzberg Twitter Tweets by Henry Mintzberg RSS FeedPosts: Henry MintzbergReframing Questions Shifting perspective changes the conversationWhat Is Communityship? … Continue reading Henry Mintzberg Canadian academic and author on business and management

Strategy: A History by Lawrence Freedman (2013)

  AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States   As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Posts where this book is embedded Strategy ** Strategy is much more than a planBooks: Lawrence FreedmanStrategy: A History by Lawrence Freedman (2013) > Tags: history (22) | Lawrence Freedman (2) | … Continue reading Strategy: A History by Lawrence Freedman (2013)

It’s Less About Strategy or Technology and It’s More About Psychology John Hagel

Over time I have come to realize that actually it’s much less about strategy or technology and it’s much more about psychology. That if we don’t understand what motivates people, if we don’t understand their emotions, their fears, their hopes, their aspirations, the best strategy is just going to sit on the shelf and the … Continue reading It’s Less About Strategy or Technology and It’s More About Psychology John Hagel

Plans Are Worthless, but Planning Is Everything Dwight Eisenhower

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. Credit: Dwight Eisenhower Comment: The plans themselves are far less important than the conversations that created the plans.Source: Quote InvestigatorPosts where this quotation is embedded Bake Conversation Into All That We Do ** There are so many ways to leverage conversation Blog Posts About the Gurteen Knowledge Café A selection … Continue reading Plans Are Worthless, but Planning Is Everything Dwight Eisenhower

Long-term Planning Is Irrelevant, If Not a Hindrance Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge

Long-term planning is irrelevant, if not a hindrance. Strategy should not be about the realisation of prior intent, but rather emphasis on the importance of openness to accident, coincidence and serendipity. Strategy in this case is the emergent resultant. Successful strategies, especially in the long term, do not result from fixing an organisational intention and … Continue reading Long-term Planning Is Irrelevant, If Not a Hindrance Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge

Strategic Conversations: Creating and Directing the Entrepreneurial Workforce by J.-C. Spender, Bruce A. Strong (2014)

  AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States   As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Posts where this book is embedded Strategic Conversations Have the potential to influence the future direction of an organization ★  > Tags: strategic conversation (8) | strategy (18)Google Web Search Photo Credits: Midjourney … Continue reading Strategic Conversations: Creating and Directing the Entrepreneurial Workforce by J.-C. Spender, Bruce A. Strong (2014)

Introduction: Knowledge Management Knowledge Management is not an oxymoron

Knowledge Management is practiced through activities that support better decision-making, strategy-making, creativity, and innovation. It’s about making better sense of the world, improved decision-making, strategy formulation, implementation, creativity, and innovation. This is something only human beings do. Computers can do none of these things. You can make sense of things independently by reading, observing, and … Continue reading Introduction: Knowledge Management Knowledge Management is not an oxymoron

Strategic Conversations Have the potential to influence the future direction of an organization

Conversion is most potent when it is strategic, but what is a strategic conversation?  You will find many definitions on the web of what constitutes a strategic conversation, but here is the one that I think is the most potent. A strategic conversation is not: a regular meeting a brainstorming meeting a conversation that addresses … Continue reading Strategic Conversations Have the potential to influence the future direction of an organization

Open, Adaptive Strategy Make employees partners in the strategy process

There are two innovations taking place in the world of strategic planning that have the potential to transform the way that strategy is thought about, formulated, and implemented.  The one approach is called open strategy, and the other adaptive or agile strategy. Open strategy is fundamentally about recognizing that no single CEO or small strategy … Continue reading Open, Adaptive Strategy Make employees partners in the strategy process

The Role of the Knowledge Café in Open/adaptive Strategy An ideal tool to help implement open strategy

The Knowledge Café can play a central role in the formulation, communication, and execution of an open or adaptive strategy. There is no prescription for applying the Knowledge Café to open/adaptive strategy-making or policy-making. The idea is to take a more conversational approach to the interactions that help formulate and execute a strategy compared to … Continue reading The Role of the Knowledge Café in Open/adaptive Strategy An ideal tool to help implement open strategy

Become a Conversation Architect A conversation architect designs and convenes conversations

Conversations occur spontaneously in various contexts with little or no thought about who should be involved or how they should be convened or managed. Spontaneous conversations are valuable, but it makes better sense to take a more formal, structured approach to some issues. Designing such meetings is the role of the conversation architect. Managers and … Continue reading Become a Conversation Architect A conversation architect designs and convenes conversations