Fulfilling Strategy Blog
Crossing the chasm between strategy & fulfillmentWe know that the secret to performance and professional fulfillment is empowering people to make progress each day on meaningful work. It’s not easy, but I’m obsessed with the opportunity of fulfilling worklife, and I’d like to share my strategies and insights here with you!
If You’re Searching for Meaning In Your Work, Rethink How You Show Up
Finding meaning in the work we do is hard-wired into our DNA. For Gen-X'ers, some of us have this epiphany in the form of a mid-life crisis. Millennials are born with a mid-life crisis, so they've got the advantage of meaning and purpose focus right out of the gate,...
Need Innovation? Challenge Your Assumptions.
Idea In Brief: Innovation is critical to sustained success, and disruption can come when you least expect it. Challenging your strategic assumptions is a great way to take an outsider's view to identify inventive opportunities and expose potential disruptive...
Kill the Company This Strategic Planning Season
Idea In Brief: Perspective changes everything. Kill the Company is a bold approach to generate inventive growth opportunities, uncover blind spots, and fuel engagement in the strategic planning process. Learn how to use this perspective-changing tool to help your...
Crushing Your Most Important Goals? If Not, Download This.
Idea In Brief: It's so easy for our super important goals to get hijacked by the urgent "now" demands of our day. Mid-year is the perfect time to revisit, re-evaluate, and recommit to those crucial goals. Here are my four-step process and two downloadable templates...
The Measurements that Drive Results: Leveraging Lead Measures
Idea In Brief: We spend a lot of energy on metrics to drive performance, but we focus that effort on lag measurements instead of lead measurements. Lead measures allow you to shift the focus from the rear view perspective of “how did I do” to the current and...
Measure What Matters: Avoiding the Perils of Metric Fixation
Idea In Brief: This article is an overview of a core Fulfilling Strategy principle: measure what matters. "Measure What Matters" means identifying and measuring those few key drivers essential to achieving big, strategic goals and implementing the right operating...