When There’s No Strategy, Any Path Looks Like Progress

Hello KSKOers

I naively thought all organisations had strategies. Peter Drucker was talking about objectives and purpose back in 1954 so I thought that by now, all organisations would have some sort of document in place, bringing together objectives, purpose, vision, mission and values. But it turns out, that’s not the case. Sitting at the back of my mind for a few weeks has been the question, ‘what happens when organisations don’t have strategies?’. I was spurred on by a chance encounter with Randy Silver to blog it all out. So, read on for this week’s musings – all about strategy, or the lack of it.

Looking forward to joining you on your learning journey!

What, no strategy?

If an organisation has no strategy, how does anyone know what to do? That’s the question that’s vexed me recently. I’ve always assumed that organisations without strategies in this day and age were very rare, but Randy Silver says it’s more common than you think.

As is often the case, when you think of something, the universe provides. In this case, I thought about organisations without strategy and the universe gave me Randy Silver. Randy was the presenter at this month’s The Future of Work Scotland webinar. You can…..