Planning for Community Benefit Creates A Culture Where Strategy Thrives
I doubt anyone would argue that to succeed successfully and sustainably one needs a plan. In fact, we hear the words throughout our sector all the time. We set time aside to develop a strategic plan with goals, benchmarks, time-frames, new mission statements AND then we go to work. Unfortunately, we often go to work doing exactly what we have always been doing, often getting frustrated as we cannot seem to get those strategic goals underway. Guess what, you are not alone. McKinsey & Company conducted a survey in 2006 and found that nearly 90% of organizations failed to implement their strategy, as identified through the goals of their strategic plan.* Kudos to the 10%, but what about the rest of us… What would make it possible for the rest of us, that overwhelming 90%, to really feel as though our strategy and plan was alive and well? Rob Sheehan recently touched on this in his blog post about strategy and culture.** The key to strategy success is actually not the plan, but the