Imagination and intuition

With change taking place at such a fast pace, the organizations have to become very flexible and adaptable. Rigid structures will be on the losers ‘side.

Unfortunately, that´s the case with many government administrations and public institutions. They can´t change fast enough, they have their own inertia and therefore they face the risk of becoming an economic and bureaucratic burden at a time when they should be anticipating the future and be able to respond to the new challenges.

The concept of anticipation is also crucial. The leaders are those who can read the signs and foresee the next generation of threats and opportunities. Imagination is, more than ever, a very precious commodity. 

Strategic accidents

Just travelled back from a meeting that had strategic issues at the centre of the debate. And I could see that very often strategy design is just based on coincidences, on facts that happen at the same time and are taken as indications of the way to follow. Strange! I ended up by calling that “strategizing by accident”.

And also came to the conclusion that in politics that’s often the case. You “build a strategy” on facts that are happening and that you never thought of. Politicians just ride the wave and call that “strategy”.