Strategy Bites Back

Jeff Grimshaw recently finished reading Strategy Bites Back, and was kind enough to compile for the rest of our firm a summary of the passages from the book he found most compelling. It includes this paragraph, which I think is spot on:

Part of the reason people fail when they try to walk the talk is that their intention was doomed from the start. Failure was inevitable because they have things backward. Walking is the means to find things worth talking about. People discover what they think by looking at what they say, how they feel, and where they walk. The talk makes sense of walking, which means those best able to walk the talk are the ones who actually talk the walking they find themselves doing most often, with most intensity, and with most satisfaction.