If you are going to embark on an initiative that is aimed at changing your vision or your strategy, our recommendation is that you take a look at one of our longer-term interventions. As any initiative that impacts the well-being of the organization for a longer term, strategy definition should be closely linked with strategy deployment and execution, and this should make it a long-term project.

In any change situation you can only embark in the process if your management team is in line with what you all need to do and works well together. Unfotunately, this is not always the case. In fact, it is more often quite the opposite. Especially in Romania, people tend to be hyper-competitive, compete rather than cooperate, engage in inter-personal conflicts, always disguised as professional conflicts and generally waste energy on things that add little value, if any, to the common good.

As the old joke says, you only need one coach to change a light bulb, but the bulb needs to want it! We have been asked, far too often, to intervene in organizations where management sees the problems always originating somewhere else. While natural, this perception is impossible. Organizations exist as a product of their management, not against or independent of it.