Strategy Transformation leads

Where are your talking heads?

Are you a an exec level transformation lead recruited to transform your business strategically? Are you armed with a big mandate to get “future-fit” but are getting sidetracked by futurists and sense-makers blinkered by binary bytes? Or are you drowning in strategy off-sites filled with possibilities that then gravitate to the predictable?

We get it. We’ve been there too.

The business world has been hardwired to a 20th century pattern-book that’s inside-out. Many talking heads confuse “faster, better, cheaper” or linear expansion for a robust strategy. Or they suffer from a finite mindset that confuses arbitrage for leverage. And the real world? Well that’s ESG gamified. Their approach to value is disconnected from the real world. All of which means you’re conditioned to play a small, short-term game that’s not just risky, but it stops you unlocking your real value potential. If you play this game, at best, you’ll waste time and money, at worse you’ll perish.

Your biggest stranded asset is this thinking.

If you want to ride the real curve, you need to play a regenerative game. Yup, you can disrupt your world for good, and be more commercially profitable. They’re not mutually exclusive, they’re mutually compounding.

Any of this sound familiar?

Most talking heads preach from an old school strategy playbook that enforces low value, high risk patterns. Unpack this, and their approach to sensing, sense-making and seizing opportunities is often blinkered.

If any of this sounds familiar, you’re probably exposed.

Their approach to sensing opportunities looks something like this….

Their approach to seizing opportunities looks something like this….

Which, in practice, ends up focusing you like this….

Blinkering you from your potential….

And ending up something like this

Don’t play this game.

instead, ask yourself about the hardcoding…

What are the assumptions underpinning this thinking?

And most importantly, what is their approach to the real world?

If it looks like any of this, then, odds are, this is the game you’re playing….

Which puts you on the wrong side of the real disruption curve.

“Today’s problems are often caused by yesterday’s solutions” - Peter Senge

#playabiggergame

* You’ll probably encounter some of the problems of Design innovators and Start Ups too.

Unlock your real potential

Playing a regenerative game gets your strategy on the right side of the real disruption curve. This is not just knowing what to do and how to do it, but how to do a 180° flip (the bird) on broken methods, models and false constructs hardcoded as “best-practice” patterns of the current strategy playbook.

Don’t look for the patterns.

Look for how the pattern book has been imprinted.

Unlocking disruptive innovation potential comes when we go beneath the bright and shiny moving things, to where it’s quiet and still.

#hidden in plain sight

Where are you now?

At the heart of real disruption is finding and unlocking real value potential. If we want to seize all the blue ocean opportunities around us, we need to change how we sense and sense-make.

Where is your time, energy and money going? Where are you focused? What are the questions you’re asking? What are you doing to build your compass of consciousness?

Different questions. Different lens. Different playbook.

Not linear markets, but living systems. Not binary bits, but biological atoms.

#playabiggergame

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