Decisions at the Speed of Change
Dennis M. Powell advises boards and executive teams at associations, professional firms and mid-market companies on the leadership issues that stall strategy before and during execution.
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THE PROBLEM
Why strategy on paper is not the strategy being executed.
- Strategy conversations keep circling familiar ground.
- Leaders agree on goals but default to old assumptions
- Hard choices are not being made about legacy processes.
- Fear and uncertainty surround major decisions
- Leadership is not seen as a catalyst for change
- Plan lacks clear execution authority
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OUR CLIENTS
Leaders and boards responsible for strategy decisions
- Associations, professional firms and mid-market organizations stuck in NOW and wanting to move to NEXT.
- Boards and leadership teams whose execution has stalled when strategy faced political, organizational or high-stakes resistance.
My work is based on my books that place the strategic leader as a fulcrum of successful strategy. They are published by Business Expert Press a publisher of applied titles for MBA and executive education.
Outcomes include organizing resources, focusing boards, advising senior leaders on managing complex issues and transformation, and advising senior leadership teams on strategy execution and building internal focus and external support.
WHAT I DO
I move leadership teams from NOW to NEXT
- See NOW Clearly: capabilities, constraints, culture, competition.
- Define NEXT: destination that leaders and staff see as achievable and actionable.
- Align for Action: decisions, resources, and accountability.
- Anticipate Disruption: prepare before it hits, because it will once strategy is executed.
- Execute with Agility: learn how to adjust without losing sight on NEXT.
- Sustain Momentum: embrace that momentum is the pulse of strategy and must be sustained.
Big firms bring analysis. I bring judgment built over 30 years of experience working with organizations dealing with high stakes political, organizational and existential disruption. My company is small by design: senior attention on every engagement, specialists added only when needed, and developing close working relationships with key senior staff to augment their capabilities.
“Strategic leaders build teams that are agile and adaptable.”
HOW WE WORK
My work is focused on creating and sustaining strategic momentum within an organization where strategy is stuck or stalled. My engagements are generally short term and focused on specific issues:
- Boards: What are you willing to surrender to attain NEXT?
- Senior Leaders: Are you willing to empower the strategic leader to create NEXT?
- Senior Teams: Are you prepared to manage the disruption that creating NEXT demands of you?
ARE YOU READY FOR STRATEGY?
The NOW to NEXT Strategic Readiness Index has been developed with psychometric expertise. It takes about 12 minutes to answer the 49 multiple choice questions organized across seven dimensions of strategic readiness. These include decision velocity, leadership alignment, and willingness to abandon key parts of NOW to attain NEXT. The index helps leaders better understand not whether they need strategy, but is their organization prepared to execute it to achieve desired results.
NOW → NEXT
Requires leaders to make decisions at the speed of change.
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If your strategy is stuck or stalled, then another plan is not the answer.
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“Your journey from Now to NEXT begins with clarity – not complexity.”
ABOUT
Dennis M. Powell
I am a strategic advisor and author. Early in my career, I worked at the highest levels of state political leadership, shaping legislative strategy, building leadership teams, and developing outreach and engagement strategies to build external support. That taught me that the right answer and the achievable result are rarely the same, and that is where strategy usually gets stuck or stalls.
When I served on the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee, I observed that senior leaders who formulated and directed policy, were all knowledgeable of the social and political trends that established parameters for action. It is here where my framework of NOW to NEXT took form.
My books, published by Business Expert Press, are written to academic standards and built for practitioners: Leading from the Top: Presidential Lessons in Issues Management, Now to Next: The Art and Science of Strategic Leadership, and the upcoming Stuck or Stalled: Why Great Strategy Fails examine factors that determine successful issues management at the highest level, successful strategy as an outgrowth of empowered strategic leadership, and factors that derail even the most skillfully crafted plans.
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Organizations don’t drift into success: they decide their way there. If your strategy is stalled, momentum is fading, and the cost of delay is rising, your next move matters.
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