Stratton Consulting Group

"Emotions cannot be ignored. In fact, research suggests that suppressing your emotions deciding not to say something when you’re upset can lead to bad results."

"The role of the boss ... should be to create a team culture where peers address concerns immediately, directly and respectfully with each other."

"You (...) need to demonstrate with words that you truly want people to raise risky issues."

"Emotions cannot be ignored. In fact, research suggests that suppressing your emotions deciding not to say something when you’re upset can lead to bad results."

"Possibility sharply focuses the scope of the breakthrough innovation."

"You can design meetings and other interactions so that people can actually get things done."

A very insightful warning for leaders engaging in strategy. The five questions are THE foundational keys to creating alignment and guideposts as you refine or redesign your organization for success into the future.

"Don’t want until your strategy is so polished that you don’t want anything more than a pat on the back."

"Execution is essential to successful innovation and strategy."

"Producing volume is not the same as pursuing excellence. Without a strategy, productivity is meaningless."

"If you hate failure, you have a wonderful way of ensuring that you don’t experience it: Play the game you know you can win."

"Imagine you’re a bright, inquisitive person working for a company with long-established policies and work processes in place (or maybe you don’t have to). Now let’s say you’ve noticed one of those processes is not as efficient or effective as it might be, which leads you to reasonably ask: Why are we doing it this way? Is there a better approach?"

"...if you want to create real change, it is not power and influence that you need, but those who seek to overthrow them." http://blogs.hbr.org//to-create-change-leadership-is-more/

"Big Opportunity statements, as we have used them, have real rational content (like any good strategy) and are emotionally compelling (like any good vision)."