Comments for Insight and innovation http://vitalbusiness.biz/blog Vital Business Coaching Blog Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:25:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Obituary for the 5 Year Strategic Plan by Martin Owen http://vitalbusiness.biz/blog/?p=265&cpage=1#comment-406 Martin Owen Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:25:34 +0000 http://vitalbusiness.biz/blog/?p=265#comment-406 Spot on. I'm running a pilot on a new way of working at the moment and I'm exhausted by demands of 5 year plans, when the likelihood of this being possible is because we're constructing this from somewhere it didn't exist before. Here's some cycling tips from Benjamin The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. - Benjamin Disraeli My role is to take the jump in thick fog before you know for sure there is another side to the chasm. To make this an even more dangerous strategy the temptation is to jump a chasm in a single leap while carrying the rest of the organization. Corporate mindset often appears to be get someone on a bike to take the leap, then ask him to report back if he makes it, in the hopeful belief the next person on the bike will encounter the same rocks and fallen branches, running child etc. The mindfulness of the journey is as important as the destination. Spot on. I’m running a pilot on a new way of working at the moment and I’m exhausted by demands of 5 year plans, when the likelihood of this being possible is because we’re constructing this from somewhere it didn’t exist before.
Here’s some cycling tips from Benjamin

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
- Benjamin Disraeli

My role is to take the jump in thick fog before you know for sure there is another side to the chasm. To make this an even more dangerous strategy the temptation is to jump a chasm in a single leap while carrying the rest of the organization.

Corporate mindset often appears to be get someone on a bike to take the leap, then ask him to report back if he makes it, in the hopeful belief the next person on the bike will encounter the same rocks and fallen branches, running child etc. The mindfulness of the journey is as important as the destination.

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