Patrick Landers

VP of Strategy, Convene Lab, Principal at N8 Ventures. Attorney, Harvard MBA.

[Patrick Landers @landerspatrick]

#Universities risk retreating into a "bunker of values" amidst rising student debt, declining public trust and government funding. Only those that proactively adapt, while preserving their mission and values will truly remain autonomous. https://t.co/afcbBV7VNG #HigherEducation

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Per @McKinsey what determines who wins in strategy - "ensuring that the right talent is fully empowered and engaged on each strategic decision." Convene Lab's focus on facilitation in strategic planning achieves this: https://t.co/smAWUgmdYz https://t.co/CfSJCw1bTl

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5 Sectors That Require a Different Approach to Group Decision-Making
https://t.co/Gk8suCvTUc? #strategy

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Strategic conversations often fail because of the cost of speaking up. Facilitation deliberately changes the structure of decision-making to lower this cost of speaking the truth. A More Convenient Truth
https://t.co/Of81DNo0A9

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Why Consensus Is Not Clarity - what looks like agreement in #Strategy sessions often masks unspoken doubts and unresolved decisions. 2 critical factors determine the likelihood of false consensus: https://t.co/3eV9tK9Gca

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The Myth of the Rational Group: why groups of smart people without decision-making structures make the wrong decisions: https://t.co/hHpHQSZ0AI via @LinkedIn

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Check out my latest article: Plans are not Decisions - why the inability to say what you're stopping signals strategic failure: https://t.co/hwv6vi2iZt #Strategy

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In the first of a series of articles on why strategies stall, I argue that #strategy doesn’t fail from lack of intelligence—it fails when we ignore how humans actually behave in groups. Drawing on over a decade of experience and classic decision theory, I introduce the central metaphor: you can’t walk a cat. https://t.co/UP4P0j4yiI

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Steve Jobs dreaming of Aristotle: https://t.co/5UVEOyiH5N

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Check out my latest article: How to Reinvent a University During a Funding Crisis: The Arizona State University Model https://t.co/p42uqTiUgT

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Check out my latest article: Cost-cutting is a not a strategy for US research universities https://t.co/FphFU87RbP

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Check out my latest article: Demographics is not Destiny for US Universities. But Value is. https://t.co/TMDPWAv1s6

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60-Second Strategic Plan Sniff Test: (1) Does the plan have a deadline?; (2) Does each Objective in the plan have a quantitative metric?; (3) Does each Objective state a target rate of change in that metric? (4) Do the Strategies exhibit a specificity that suggests they address specific Critical Success Factors and Barriers? "A goal without a plan is just a wish." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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University of Colorado does a particularly good job of transparently reporting their performance against their strategic metrics: https://t.co/2rml5SmkOV @CUSystem

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

In their efforts to grow, companies often make decisions that slowly erode their original unique strategy. https://t.co/8wzmrlPXex

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The history of strategic planning since World War 2 describes a path from rigid post-war planning to what in practice is no strategy at all. The synthesis is Strategic Culture - focused, flexible, effective and prescient.

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"technology has made it easier to state the financial case for considering non-financial metrics."
https://t.co/X7iHY97QJy

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How Covid-19 Will Change Aging and Retirement https://t.co/M4xsFTQp24

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40 percent of companies that have remained in existence more than 300 years are located in Japan. https://t.co/9c0wjJkdWo