Why Values Aren’t Enough
Here’s something I often hear from clients and connections in the strategy space: “Brooke, you always hate on ‘value statements’ as strategy. But values are important, right?”
Here’s something I often hear from clients and connections in the strategy space: “Brooke, you always hate on ‘value statements’ as strategy. But values are important, right?”
“Our strategy was great, but the team never implemented it properly.” “Our strategy was just too far ahead of its time, and the market wasn’t ready.” “Our strategies would have performed super well in the market, if only the Board would have authorized the resources we needed.” Heard anything like that before? ☝️
Welcome to the For Female Founders podcast series where we're helping women in business learn to thrive, not just survive. I am your host, Sarah Bundy, and today my guest is Brooke Struck. He's the founder and CEO of Converge, where he helps client leadership teams to align around their biggest challenges and the differentiated advantages that they're going to use to solve them
Meetings are interesting. Especially the boring ones. When I say “interesting,” I don’t mean literally interesting. Not most meetings, anyway. Most meetings are absolutely dreadful.
In this talk, Brooke will talk about how our culture over-values predictability and struggles with change, how to tame the chaos of “small failures” that we need on the road to “big successes,” and the invaluable role of wisdom and experience that we gain as we age.