Consider The Unthinkable

Greetings from lovely New Orleans and the last day of the 2025;OPEN MINDS;Strategy & Innovation Institute. The three days have been punctuated by discussions of strategic insights and the chaos surrounding health care budgets, policy, and practice.

These discussions brought to mind the observation by historian John Lukacs: “The trouble with what is unthinkable is that at times it must be thought about.”

What does that have to do with strategy? The health and human service field is at a point of inflection where traditional leadership, traditional management, and traditional thinking are not necessarily the best . . .