Strategic Agility & Transformation
Leadership Team Cohesion: Strategy’s Real Infrastructure
By Erin Sedor | Black Fox Strategy You’ve got smart people around your table. Accomplished people. People who’ve led teams, built programs, delivered results. Individually, they’re impressive. Collectively? Something isn’t clicking. Maybe it shows up as circular conversations that never land on a decision. Maybe it’s the side conversations after the meeting that matter more…
Read MoreGet Off the Transformation Treadmill: Equilibrium as a Strategic Discipline
Bold transformation has become the default prescription for whatever ails your organization. Revenue flat? Transform. Culture struggling? Transform. Market shifting? Transform again. Competitors making moves? Bigger transformation. Stakeholders anxious? Promise them the boldest transformation yet. The result? Exhausted teams. Cynical employees. Strategies that never gain traction before the next overhaul begins. And leadership so consumed…
Read MoreStrategic Planning for CEOs: A New Take in 2026.
By Erin Sedor | Black Fox Strategy Here’s something I almost never hear from the CEOs I work with: “My strategic plan is terrible.” What I hear instead is some version of: “The plan is fine. The goals make sense. But something’s off and I can’t put my finger on it.” They’re not wrong. And…
Read MoreAvoid Transformation Fatigue By Designing Better Strategy
Updated: Feb 24 Erin Sedor | Black Fox Strategy I was talking with a colleague last week about the non-stop change initiatives we were both seeing with our clients. She was working with a CEO who had just announced his organization’s third major transformation in five years. First came the digital transformation. Then the culture transformation.…
Read MoreAdaptive Strategy for CEOs: Build Forward, Not Back
By Erin Sedor | Black Fox Strategy Somewhere along the way, “resilience” became the business world’s favorite survival word. It showed up in boardrooms, annual reports, and keynote titles. It became shorthand for everything from crisis recovery to organizational grit to the general ability to “weather the storm.” And almost everywhere I see it used,…
Read MoreStop Blaming Execution. Your Strategy Design Is The Flaw.
“Our strategy is fine. We just need better execution.” I’ve heard this phrase – or variations of it – countless times during my career. I am pretty sure I even said it myself during my corporate days. It’s become business gospel, the default explanation for why strategic plans fail to deliver. The strategy is brilliant.…
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