Leading with Agility

Co-op Live: When leaders fail to plan

Season 1 Episode 18

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In the past two weeks, Co-op Live, a brand new entertainment venue in Manchester has had to publicly apologise after its grand opening got delayed repeatedly. While it's General Manager resigned after controversial comments were made about the UK entertainment industry.

What are the lessons leaders can draw about how to plan successfully? What does strategic planning mean and can plans ever work when working on such complex projects?

We discuss this and more in this week's episode.

And as always, if you've listened to the episode, here are some of the resources we reference:

[1] BBC: "Co-op Live: How UK’s biggest indoor arena became butt of jokes"
[2] HBR: 4 common reasons strategies fail
[3] A futurists framework for strategic planning

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