Strategy — Blog — Jennifer L. Phillips, Ph.D.

Creative teams are bendy, with a solid core

Work, StrategyJennifer PhillipsAugust 8, 2024creativity, leadership, change

Emergent strategy

Strategy, Work, JusticeJennifer PhillipsAugust 31, 2023emergent strategy, adrienne maree brown, change, systems change, transformation, strategy

Cost-benefit analysis for change

Work, Life, StrategyJennifer PhillipsFebruary 23, 2022change, change management, cost benefit analysis, coaching

The situation is the boss

Strategy, Work, LifeJennifer PhillipsFebruary 7, 2022grateful dead, control, ignorance, journaling, avoidance, micromanagement

What's the idea?

Life, Work, StrategyJennifer PhillipsJuly 6, 2021Design Thinking, Frank Lloyd Wright

Four questions: creative comedown

Work, Strategy, CreativityJennifer PhillipsJune 17, 2021creativity, fun, freedom, consistency, self-acceptance, seeds, compassion

Nonprofit Overhead: Learning Resources

To support your learning, I have collected the following resources on overhead, impact, and an illuminative case study.

Embrace the pace: lessons from UVA basketball.

UVA's smothering pace and the team culture that enables it are terrific examples of what I call “deep strategy.”

Strategy, WorkJennifer PhillipsMarch 12, 2018Strategy, Culture, Basketball

Servant leadership is more than means to an end.

Most of the folks peddling servant leadership are selling you snake oil. If you want the real thing, you must face a difficult, but profoundly rewarding challenge.

Justice, Work, StrategyJennifer PhillipsNovember 28, 2017Servant Leadership, Radical Change, Privilege

The urgency of meaningful work.

This one is a love song to all of you reeling from the news cycle and worrying about your life's purpose.

Work, Strategy, JusticeJennifer PhillipsOctober 2, 2017Charlottesville, Meaningful Work, Tragedy, Hope

"Live the questions now."

Are you wading through uncertainties in work and life? Live the questions.

Poetry, Strategy, PhilosophyJennifer PhillipsJuly 27, 2017Rilke, Strategy, Philosophy, Privilege, uncertainty

3 strategic pivots for a too-busy organization.

It's easy to find advice about managing your personal workflow. But what if the problem is organizational? [video]

Work, StrategyJennifer PhillipsMay 17, 2017busyness, Balance, Process, Capacity, Culture, Mindfulness

Cautionary tale: business lessons from Fyre Festival

One of my favorite pastimes - live music - has provided an epic case study.

Work, Strategy, MusicJennifer PhillipsMay 4, 2017

How minimalism can help you find your purpose and focus at work.

Imagine a world in which everyone works with good and creative purpose, free from distraction, and full of the energy that comes from rest and good strategy.