Posts by LBL Strategies Team
Leaders Should Focus on Long-Term Goals to Successfully Deploy Agency Strategy
By J. Woody Stanley At the time this article was published, cabinet-level departments and agencies in the US federal government were preparing to release a four-year strategic plan outlining their direction and goals during President Biden’s administration. The strategic plan, which is required by 5 U.S.C. 306, reflects deliberations and decisions taken by agency officials…
Read MoreThe “Great Resignation” Reveals Leadership’s “Achilles’ Heel” in Effective Change
By Richard Thayer, William Zybach, and Sally Parker, Syngineering Solutions Several of our friends and relatives have left their jobs over the past few months – many of them with no new position to move into. They just walked away. This seems to be happening everywhere – but why? To help answer this, McKinsey & Company conducted surveys…
Read MoreStrategic Planning and Management: The Argument for Professional Credentialing
The world is increasingly uncertain – progressively complicated by misinformation, disinformation, and digital interference by increased technological disruptions such as Deep Fakes. To navigate this complicated environment, we must adopt “evidence-based” decisions. This requires us to lean on a team of educated professionals, routed in requisite knowledge and experience to guide us to a desirable…
Read MoreThe value of foresight and scenario-based planning for federal agencies
The Problem The planning for the future is trumped by the crises of today. Many government agencies lack a foresight office, much less a foresight capability. While intelligence activities may be strong, the ability to plan farther into the future for uncertainty beyond the 5 year budget planning horizon is not common. On March 28,…
Read MoreWhat a World of Difference a Little Foresight Could Make
International Development Agencies are Exploring the Future The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic upended the plans and strategies of development organizations globally. But the destabilizing health and economic crisis is but one of many significant events and trends that are remaking the context for development cooperation. Indeed, there are several economic, environmental, social and technological disruptions transforming…
Read MoreDesigning Public-Private Partnerships for Agility Accelerates Impact
The design of an organization not only matters… it matters a lot. Design impacts organizational performance, customer satisfaction, workforce well-being, and more. Why? Because good organizational design aligns everything about an organization to its strategy. In essence, effective design puts “strategy on the ground” by clarifying how an organization will function to achieve its mission…
Read MorePublic-Private Partnerships for Wicked Problems
Many have observed that the coronavirus pandemic has spurred coordinated action across boundaries, with researchers rapidly identifying and sharing hundreds of viral genome sequences, 200 New York hospitals collaborating on one digital health platform, and all hospitals sharing COVID-19 testing data as well as information on bed capacity and supplies with the federal government to…
Read MoreLBL Strategies & The George Washington University’s Center of Excellence in Public Leadership Introduce New Certification Program: Mastering Agile Organizational Design Certification
LBL Strategies announces a new program for continuing professional development in strategic management, with focus on organizational design. This program will be available in two offerings: 1) Public sector focus, and 2) All-sector focus.
Read MoreWhy seek strategic management certification?
At every venue you visit for the services you need, there are credentials and certificates hanging on the wall. Behind the desk of your attorney and CPA are their degrees and licenses; your surgeon and dentist proudly display the medical credentials they worked so hard to earn. Even for professions that don’t take years of…
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