Strabo Insights
Insights for achieving sustainable success
How much time are you spending on Offense?
Recently, I read an article about the presidency of George H.W. Bush. The author made an interesting point that Bush’s national security team was great because of what did not happen during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. They deftly managed it, allowing for the...
Conversations regarding trends
As part of any business review, a discussion of economic change and its cascading effects are vitally important. One topic each company should keep an eye on is the rapid change in the use of the commercial real estate. This change will cascade through the economy in...
Introducing the Challenges of Success
In doing a review online, most articles with challenges and success are mostly about the challenges that successful people or companies have to overcome. I want to change your viewpoint on this paring. In most cases, when we achieve success, a new environment is...
The Faces of Janus
The Roman God Janus was a deity of beginnings and endings. It had two heads, one looking backward and the other forward. When setting goals, it is vital to keep the backward face of Janus in mind. Unless this is the first day of an organization, many actions and...
Keeping your Results Aligned
Keeping results aligned in business is not easy and requires multiple data points for continual review. First, Peter Drucker described leadership should have a shoulder to the wheel while keeping their eyes on the horizon. A business must focus on the next 100 days...
Find Your Instinctual Language of Results
Do you know what your language of results is? I was invited to play on a kickball team, and I am glad I did. The thrill of game competition unearthed the feelings of winning and losing not felt since High School. Winning is still a much better feeling than losing...
Holding People Accountable: Instructive vs. Destructive
How many of us know of someone or ourselves have put off a trip to the doctor, dentist, or car mechanic? Maybe we think, if one does not pay attention to the issue, maybe it will go away. The reason for this irrational behavior is fear. The problem exists, but our...
Forming Cohesive Action: Mutuality vs. Individuality
There are two competing factors on the path to forming cohesive action. First, mutuality is the sharing of a feeling, action, or relationship between two or more parties. When an organization discusses results, it must be from this viewpoint rather than individual...
Achieving Fruitful Results: Progress vs. Perfection
Don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good. It is human nature to spend more time focusing on what went wrong rather than building on what has gone right. For a discussion of progress and results to become fruitful removing fear, blame, and accusation from the...
Quality: Avoiding Taxes of Poor Quality, Repeat Work, and Lost Customers
Sometimes it's good to be avoiding taxes. Yes, you should pay your income tax. But we've all heard of (and have probably paid into) the stupid tax, right? Well, we're talking about something similar here. A story of when Dave Thomas worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken...