Here’s the rub: taking an organization from Current State to a Future State involves the very hard work of Change Management (read – handling ambiguity well).

Strategy really produces NOTHING until people (the leader and the led) change behavior so that the spoken and unspoken constraints pushing down on the Current State and the Drivers pushing the Current State are articulated and everyone in the organization becomes part of the solution for change to move from where you are to where you want to be.

The leader can be a constraint or a driving force for change – recognition of the intention of the leader (and don’t we have have good intentions!) , behavior of that leader (sometimes, the comfortable path of “doing” rather than thinking and leading creeps into behavior – ya think!) and the impact of the leader (Right Intentions with Wrong Behavior = Disastrous Impact) are the grist of the mill for objective, often external consultants (life coaches, business coaches, change coaching).

Some random thought from Oregon!