INSIGHTS

Learning On Purpose

This insights board brings together perspectives on strategy, transformation, and leadership drawn from years of working inside complex organizations. The focus is less on frameworks and more on the real dynamics leaders face when decisions carry consequence and change must be sustained over time.

Many of these insights reflect how I think about strategy and organizational transformation, not as projects or plans, but as leadership practices shaped by context, power, and time. These are offered as thinking tools for leaders navigating complexity and responsibility.



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    Your strategy needs a squad.
    by Meredith
    You Don’t Need Another Strategy. You Need a Squad. Many organizations don’t fail at strategy because they lack intelligence, ambition, or care. They fail because strategy is treated like a document instead of a discipline or like a solo act instead of shared stewardship. Transformation doesn’t happen when a brilliant leader sees the future clearly.… Read more: Your strategy needs a squad.
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    Transformation as a leadership practice
    by Meredith
    Organizational transformation is not a project. It’s a leadership practice. Organizational transformation is often framed as a large initiative – something to be launched, managed, and completed. In practice, transformation doesn’t fail because leaders choose the wrong path. Transformation fails because the organization is asked to change without sufficient clarity about what must truly be… Read more: Transformation as a leadership practice
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    Strategy as a leadership discipline
    by Meredith
    Strategy is not a plan; strategy is a leadership discipline. Most organizations don’t struggle with strategy because they lack ideas. They struggle because they avoid making the decisions strategy requires. When everything is labeled a priority, leaders postpone tradeoffs. Strategy becomes a document, a planning cycle, or a set of aspirations rather than a series… Read more: Strategy as a leadership discipline