{"id":514,"date":"2015-09-28T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T09:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2015-09-28T11:16:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T09:16:27","slug":"strategy-by-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/strategy-by-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy by design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a very popular quote by Maslow that cautions you not to over-rely on a single tool or skill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Abraham Maslow 1966<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But what if you find yourself in a leadership position, attempting to drive change in your organisation? If you are trying to establish a uniform approach to the situation your company is in, because you might have found out that torx screws and staples will not get you where you need to go?<\/p>\n<p>Then it might actually make sense to hide the screwdrivers, rivet guns and glue tubes. If all you leave your team with is a hammer, they\u2019ll start treating most problems like nails &#8211; and all you need to do is be sure that you have picked a winning strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a very popular quote by Maslow that cautions you not to over-rely on a single tool or skill: &#8220;I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.&#8221; &#8211; Abraham Maslow 1966 But what if you find yourself in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[38,60,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}