Dragging old agendas into new futures

The old saying goes:

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

To put it another way; strategy work that drags old agendas into new futures will just end up creating more of the same.

Old agendas are historical ideas loaded with bias.

They lurk in the minds of those with power and are often deployed at awkward and inopportune times to disrupt the progression of new paths where it is clear that old power structures will be weakened.

Old agendas are like a virus that attack healthy strategy systems. They exploit the uncertainty that foresight work tries to address. Sowing seeds of doubt and forcing the whole process back into the safety of past habits.

They are enemy #1.

Designing strategy approaches that weaken the power and influence of old agendas is the real work of good strategy.

Failure to destroy old agendas is fatal for any kind of organisational development and transformation.