Rock and Sand

Leadership Question of the Week:
What do Walt Whitman, Ted Lasso, and Marcus Buckingham have in common?

Strategy Question of the Week:
What's the best book on strategy? The one that has helped you understand strategy the most?

What is your way of creating a "Shared Vision" for the team you lead? How well is that working?

When you have a long term vision for you organization (you should), how do you decide what to do about it in the next 90 days?

Leadership Question of the Week:
Are you celebrating the success of the people you lead? What's the best way to do this?

Strategy Question of the Week:
Are you a strategic thinker or a tactical thinker?
What's the difference?

Leadership Question of the Week?
Is leading by example leading? How important is it to the people you lead?

Strategy Question of the Week:
What is the most difficult part of planning your organization's strategy?

Leadership Question of the Week:
What's the difference between leading and managing?

Strategy Question of the Week:
What is the most misunderstood part of strategic planning?

FYI. I've deleted the Rock and Sand Group from facebook to eliminate some offensive spamming from being posted on the group

Leadership Question of the Week:
How often do you "challenge the status quo?"

Strategy Question of the Week:
Are you better than your competition, or different than them? Which should you focus on?

Leadership Question of the Week:
When a member of your team makes a significant mistake, as their leader, what do you do about it?

Strategy Question of the Week:
What are the major reasons a Strategic Plan doesn't work?

Leadership Question of the Week:
What did the best leader you worked for do that made them the best?

Strategy Question of the Week:
Can you explaing your strategy on the front of one 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?

Leadership Question of the Week:
Can you lead a team you aren't listening too?

Strategy Question of the Week:
When creating strategy, who are listening to? Customers? Team? Experts?

Strategy Question of the Week:
What's more important to define when creating your organization's strategy, "Vision" or "Purpose?"

Leadership Question of the Week:
Ted Lasso is a fictional leader but a good one. What is his best leadership behavior?

Strategy/Leadership Question of the Week:
Is your company's culture a part of your company's strategy? Explain your answer.

Leadership Question of the Week:
How do you know that you are leading effectively and successfully?

Strategy Question of the Week:
Who should be involved in the creation of your organization's strategy? And why them?

Leadership question of the week:
What is the most important behavior a leader needs to do to get others to follow her/him?

Strategy Question of the Week: How closely connected are Strategy and Leadership (ability to lead others) in your organization? Why or why not?

From Matt Woodard, HGA:

Working with Synk is easy and familiar. But it’s hard as well. He makes you use muscles in your brain that you’re not used to using, because what we worked on doesn’t accomplish tasks right in front of you.
We achieved a understanding of leadership and strategy as a team and now all have the same terminology. We bonded around all of this.
We set a strategy and ex*****on plan based on the persona of our core customers and developed a brand promise based on it. We will meet the outcomes we set because our core customers will connect to the brand promise and know that we deliver on our commitments.
If you’re thinking about working with Synk, you’ve most likely identified that you could use some help. You may find some good ideas in a book (or thousands of them). But if you want the kind of help that connects you from where you are to where you know you want to go, Synk will help you get there.
He won’t set your strategy for you, and he won’t tell you how to run your business. He will discuss and teach proven methods to connect strategy to an actual plan. Book him.

Leadership Question of the Week:
Name a leadership skill you have had to learn to become a better leader. Was it difficult to master?

Strategy question of the week:
Are you "better" than your competitors or "different" from them? In what ways?

The Rock & Sand Model solves this dilemma. Connects your vision to a strategy plan your team will actually execute.