Would You Invite Employees to Vote on Strategic Direction?

Planning is no longer primarily a staff function for coming up with the proper “answer” which managers must then implement, but a process “whereby management teams,” says former planning head Arie de Geus, “change their shared mental models of their company, their markets, and their competitors.”

To make effective change take place, managers need to find a way to tap this rhythm—-to create not only time to think, but time for different types of thought and collective discussion. Our preferred tool for this is the “wheel of learning.”*

Rolling out a new plan gives leaders the opportunity to create strong buy-in, trust, and excitement for the work ahead. Don't squander it.