What To Do When Strategy Fails

Greetings from the 2014 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Retreat – where among our discussions about leadership, positioning, and organizational strategy, my colleague Joseph P. Naughton-Travers, Ed.M asked a very important question: what happens when your strategy fails?

In his discussion session, How Do You Survive A Failed Strategic Plan? Finding The Executive Path To Recovery, Joe introduced a case model built around the failure of a strategic plan and the executive actions required to get things back on track. The case for discussion was an all-too-familiar situation for many organizations: Operating under a strategic plan that was . . .