Download - Creating a Living Strategy
Creating a Living
StrategyRotary 5040 Leadership Seminar
February 17, 2007
Strategy – A Fundamental Planning Process
1. Where are we today?
2. Where are we going?
3. How do we get there?
4. Review / Renew
Where are we today?
Strengths / Weaknesses / Opportunities /
Threats A solid assessment of the starting point for the
plan – from both internal and external perspectives.
Distinctive Excellence Assure that you don’t leave behind your best
strength(s).
Where do we want to be?
Vision Choose your destination – essential to the
development of a plan
Mission The purpose of the organization.
Values What’s important in how we do things?
How do we get there?
• Core strategy selections and
Statements of strategy
• Setting of specific objectives
• Assignment of action
• Measurement of results to plan
• Regular review and renewal
VISION
A clear & compelling image of the future that inspires confidence and motivates
change.
“This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and
returning him safely to earth.”-John F. Kennedy, 1961
WHAT MAKES GREAT VISION?
• Leader initiated
• Shared and supported
• Positive – inspiring
• Not a sure bet
• Relevant
Visionary OrganisationsVisionary Organisations• “Built to Last” Collins & Porras, 1997 and
“Good to Great” Collins 2002• Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (1945)
– “Become the company that most changes the worldwide image of Japanese products as being of poor quality”
– Products - Rice Steamers, food paste– Renamed – Sony Corporation
• Ford (1907)– “to build a motorcar for the multitude… low in
price that every man on a good salary could afford one… The horse will have disappeared from the highway and the motorcar taken for granted”
Strategy - and leadership skills• Focuses and sharpens the use of critique• Strengthens initiative by creating clear direction• Increases inquiry as ways to proceed are sought• Advocacy become more easily focused on
what’s right• Decision making becomes more defined and
resolute• Conflict resolution becomes more objective and
vision based• Resilience is strengthened as direction is clear
PATHWAY
VISION-Organization
- Team- Personal
START
Strategy and Vision help keep you on your pathway
VISION
Values
Results
Actions
Objectives
Strategy
Committees
Clubs
District
Putting it all together
Four Way Test
Vision
Rotarians
A Note About Change…..
“Insanity is. . . …continuing to do the things we’ve always done and expecting to get different results.”
Albert Einstein
Review of District 5040 Strategy
“Vision without action is merely a dream,
Action without vision just passes the time,
Vision with action can change the world”
Joel Barker
Breakout Session #1• AG’s Room 1711 with Don• District Committees Room 1715 with Chris• Club Leaders & Others Room 1717, Leigh
Question – What can we do with your clubs in Rotary Year 2007 / 2008 to help move us forward towards our strategic goals?
Return to this room at 11:30 for team presentations (max ten minutes each team)