Strategic planning can smother innovation

Planning is control

Strategic planning, like change management, has a spotty track record buttressed by reams of research on why the idea and process looks so good on paper but delivers lackluster results. [...]

RACI concepts to improve execution

RACI concepts

Defining accountability and responsibility immediately improves execution rates in any process. [...]

The Evolving Landscape of the Organization

Taylor and Weber brought statistics to management. Unfortunately their concepts often also engendered an unhealthy and unproductive chasm between the new management positions it implied and the workers it no longer asked to think. [...]