Strategy lurks in the deep places of our imagination
Organisations develop elaborate processes to control imagination, socialise it and constrain it. They have a talent for ‘grinding out diversity’. Consciously or unconsciously, the organisational systems and processes relentlessly ensure nothing changes.
A pragmatic approach
Does our unhealthy desire to be seen as pragmatic, task-focused, can-do, action-oriented, heroic leaders grind out the diversity of thought in our organisations? Does it grind out possibility and opportunity?