It’s a striking idea: a “yes” for every half-heart that won’t help you achieve your goals is a concrete “no” for more valuable activities. Most managers engage in passive disengagement, which means no longer inserting plugins that no longer add value to projects, activities, and strategies, but continue to passively allow them to occupy our time and attention. Research shows that 80% of managers believe their senior leaders cannot quickly kill failed plans. you?
Replacing passive approaches with strategic thinking and positive disengagement, eliminating things from your time and attention is no longer a priority. The dirty secret of strategy within an organization is that you have to be willing to reject and deprive things that can’t directly help you and your team achieve your goals and execute your strategy.
In my new business graphic novel Strategy Administrators and Counter-Strategy Squad: Use strategic thinking to defeat bad strategies and save plansThis is the Axiom Business Book Award, known as the Best Strategy Book of 2018, and the villain representing this issue is the Ph.D.
