The problem with strategy

Catching up from a busy week, I’m going through a stack of newspapers and too many unread posts in Google Reader.

I did manage to read this great quote from Obama’s Seven Lessons for Radical Innovators posted by Umair Hague on Harvard Business Publishing :

“…strategy, too often, kills a deeply-lived sense of purpose, destroys credibility, and corrupts meaning.”

That must be encouraging reading for all of those highly experienced intranet or web managers who day in and day out create immense value for their organisations, without having a detailed strategy in place.

I suggest you to take a close look at the article, as all 7 lessons are extremely relevant to anybody working in an online organisation.