agile strategY & ExecUtion

As captured so well by Peter Senge in the quote above, our approach to facilitating strategic planning is an and-proposition of:  

• Detail Complexity and Dynamic Complexity
• Traditional Strategic Planning and an Agile Strategy Process
• Being Comfortable and Uncomfortable
• Learning and Unlearning
• Translating Agile Strategy and Agile Execution into Traction on your Desired Trajectory of Profitable Growth for All, avoiding Wheel$pin!

We help teams shift gears with these and-propositions to avoid the failure that Peter Senge speaks of in achieving the breakthroughs they desire.

The bigger challenge is to engage in the flow of dynamic complexity with an Agile Strategy Process.  Necessitated by the ever accelerating speed of business, pace of change and flow of disruptive turbulence coming at us all the time.  We have always said, "Change is the Only Constant", but the nature of change itself has changed, now laced with so much more VUCA:

Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity

Remaining future-proofed in an accelerating VUCA world is much more challenging.  Which is why Traditional Strategic Planning alone doesn't work well any more.  We must also pivot to an Agile Strategy Process with Agile Veracity, Velocity and Composure

In an old world dominated by detail complexity, "Cash is King"!  But not any more in a new world dominated by dynamic complexity driven by accelerating disruptive VUCA.  Instead, "Conversation-Flow" is king and cash-flow is a way of keeping score". 

You show us a business with poor cash-flow and we will show you a business with poor conversation-flow, not talking about the right things in the right way at the right time (and of course taking action in agile ways which becomes clear when we unpack what we mean by "Conversation-Flow" and opens the door to an agile mindset)

Driving the Quantity, Quality and Cadence of your Conversation-Flow becomes the Quantity, Quality and Cadence of your Cash-Flow.  QQC.  That is the definition of what you want of your Cash-Flow and it is the same that you must drive with your Conversation-Flow.

We crystallize a 2nd one pager called a "Traction Plan" which helps the team see the dynamic complexity of their VUCA|Agility challenge in 3D, able to simultaneously see the whole, the parts and the path.  

We introduce your team to the agile productivity concept of Triage as an ongoing process of dynamic simplicity able to deal with the dynamic complexity of VUCA, with the agility required.

As captured in our recent eBook, all adding up to The One Advantage of a peer-powered culture of agility.  That is really the only competitive advantage you have these days which has any degree of permanence.  In an accelerating VUCA world, everything  else is increasingly temporary, increasingly quickly, probably bigger, faster and sooner than you think!  At least, that is the only safe assumption.  We invite teams to begin a 5 Level reset for the new battleground.  I have been facilitating CEO and Executive Peer Forums for 20 years and leverage the power-of-peers in client teams to be working together better with agility.

We are entering a new era demanding an elevated level of collectively intelligent agility.  As Artificial Intelligence rises up in criticality, Human Intelligence needs to rise up alongside it, creating a progressive convergence of Human Intelligence + Artificial Intelligence = Collective Intelligence.  That is the Level 5 Intelligence Advantage that you must be developing for the new battleground of remaining future-proofed.  In many businesses, their quest for agility is collectively unintelligent, to put it mildly!