BIG QUESTION:

Why do organizations need a dream before they need a strategy?

LEARNING OUTCOME:

In the Dream Phase, you’ll explore why organizations naturally rush toward solutions and why lasting change begins with a compelling preferred future instead.

ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE ALL CHANGE CREW:

Don’t rush to solutions

REFLECT:

Complete these questions before moving to the Practice exercise.

  1. What problem or opportunity currently occupies most of your attention as a leader?

  2. When your team gathers, what occupies more of the conversation: solving immediate problems or imagining a preferred future?

  3. What would change if your organization became known more for the future it was pursuing than the problems it was trying to solve?

  4. Which part of today's teaching challenged your assumptions the most?