Decentralization: A New Era of Business Leadership

By |2022-11-02T11:40:51+13:00September 29th, 2022|Leadership|

Decentralization: A New Era of Business Leadership If your organization has thrived - or even just survived - over the last two years, it is likely because you have learned to embrace two fundamental headwinds: disruption and reinvention. No matter your industry, the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have changed the way companies operate. Those changes [...]

Navigating the Three Phases of Strategic Change

By |2022-11-04T09:42:15+13:00September 29th, 2022|Leadership, Strategy planning, Transformational Strategic Execution|

Navigating the Three Phases of Strategic Change First - The letting go One might consider people to be the hardest thing to change, and corporate culture is often overlooked. It often seems the fundamental DNA of the business will always resist change to process and policy. Culture has a way of pulling the entire enterprise [...]

Need a Boost in Productivity? Break Down Your Silos

By |2022-11-04T09:42:51+13:00July 27th, 2022|Culture, Leadership|

Need a Boost in Productivity? Break Down Your Silos   Digital transformation remains alive and well across most companies, as adaption and agility have become the norm in order to stay competitive. To successfully function at the pace required today, a company has to do more than rely on technology or processes. Creating the right [...]

The Strategy Behind When to Take a Stand

By |2022-11-07T12:11:39+13:00May 30th, 2022|Leadership, Strategy planning|

The Strategy Behind When to Take a Stand Blame it on the rise of social media, more socially conscious consumers, or perhaps even the 24-hour news cycle, but never has there been more pressure on companies to weigh in on controversial topics trending in the mainstream consciousness. These topics are often centered around real-time crises—everything [...]

Struggling through the Great Resignation? Prioritizing Diversity Can Help

By |2022-11-07T11:18:24+13:00April 22nd, 2022|Culture, Leadership, Strategy planning|

Struggling through the Great Resignation? Prioritizing Diversity Can Help Two years into the pandemic and we’re only beginning to wrap our minds around the impact it has had on the workforce. Global lockdowns and a new, more virtual world spurred ‘The Great Resignation,’ with individuals from all walks of life evaluating their priorities and preferences [...]

We can all be Strategic Leaders – Characteristics of Successful Ones

By |2022-11-07T15:16:08+13:00March 30th, 2022|Leadership|

We can all be Strategic Leaders - Characteristics of Successful Ones Visionary or Operator? Following a recent 2021 study by PwC on Harvard Business Review, they recognized some “key characteristics” that were desirable to be a future successful leader. In the past (and perhaps still today), it was common that in the significant majority of [...]

What’s ahead for 2022? We share our top predictions

By |2022-11-07T15:29:50+13:00December 15th, 2021|Leadership, Strategy planning, StrategyBlocks|

What’s ahead for 2022? We share our top predictions After the last two years, we can all agree that ‘predicting the future’ is an impossible feat. Still, we can benefit from looking at the business landscape around us and highlighting what trends are going to have the biggest impact in the months to come. Two [...]

The Four Perspectives of Improved Decision-Making

By |2022-11-07T11:53:26+13:00November 30th, 2021|Leadership, Strategy planning|

The Four Perspectives of Improved Decision-Making How we make decisions We often talk about agile work practices and dynamic strategic execution as a critical part of the ‘fabric’ of business innovation, but for some reason, we are not able to push this way of thinking and working back into the strategic decision-making process--what we call [...]

Three Steps to Start Your ESG Journey Today

By |2022-11-07T12:15:35+13:00November 29th, 2021|Culture, Leadership, StrategyBlocks|

Three Steps to Start Your ESG Journey Today On the heels of this year’s Cop26, it is clear that businesses around the world are committed to reducing their environmental impact and improving sustainability practices. Analysts from McKinsey & Company rightly noted that while nearly everyone is aligned on achieving NetZero, the path to getting there [...]

Harnessing the Value of Informal Leaders

By |2022-11-02T14:30:30+13:00October 28th, 2021|Leadership|

Harnessing the Value of Informal Leaders At StrategyBlocks we work with a large number of organizations who want to improve their strategic success. These conversations often take place with company leadership who understand firsthand how crucial visibility into strategic programs can be to achieving goals. What we’ve found after many strategic engagements is that while [...]

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