Would You Invite Employees to Vote on Strategic Direction?

In a world where we increasingly outsource or mechanize repetitive work, in which we’ve unlocked the free flow of information and built teams of highly educated millennium-generation talent that demands a seat at the table, we need to shift our approach from telling the strategy to co-creating it, so
Nilofer Merchant • 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era
In the almost five years that I’ve been leading CPI ANZ, we’ve never had a “strategic plan.”
Each year, at the beginning of the year, I write a “CPI ANZ vision” which I share with the board. But I’ve been resistant to developing the more traditional 2-5 year strategic plan. And I’ve been thinking about why.
The reason is because most strategic plans
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