Organizational Vision & Strategy

1. Organizational Vision & Strategy • Focus on organization & its characteristics, not the leader. • Leaders focus on building capabilities of companies to behave in visionary ways. • Core values plus enduring purpose • Powerful drive for progress

2. Preserve the Core • Most fundamental values the organization will hold and behave consistently with. • Purpose beyond maximization of profits • Cult-like cultures • Growing management

3. Stimulate Progress • Create and Achieve audacious goals • Promote purposeful evolution (innovate & experiment – keep what works) • Continual self-improvement

4. Strategy – Focused Organization • Tighten the link between an organization and its execution • Translate strategy to operational terms • Align the organization to the strategy • Make strategy everyone’s day job • Making strategy a continual process • Mobilize change through executive leadership

5. Personal Experiences • Who works for organizations that do this? • Examples of companies that are good/bad at this.

6. Leadership • Great leaders are great teachers

7. Teaching Organizations • More agile • Develop better strategies • Implement strategies more effectively