TheOptimal Horizon

Essays

Thinking out loud about the next horizon.

Short pieces on the Optimal Horizon and the questions it raises, for organizations and for each of us: why we lose alignment, how to choose the next horizon, and what it takes to keep moving onward.

  • Your Own Optimal Horizon

    Every organization has an Optimal Horizon. So does every person. How Assess, Align, Build and Strengthen work when the organization you’re leading is your own life.

    6 minute read

  • You Can’t See Your Optimal Horizon From Here

    Why the best direction for an organization only comes into view one horizon at a time, and why that is good news.

    5 minute read

  • An Optimal Horizon Is Not a Vision Statement

    A vision statement describes an aspiration. An Optimal Horizon describes how an organization’s people, processes, technology, data and finances need to work together. The difference matters.

    4 minute read

  • The Horizons in Between

    The Optimal Horizon provides the direction. The intermediate horizons provide the path. How to choose them, and what makes a good one.

    5 minute read

The next horizon

Have a question you’d like me to write about?

If something here sparked a question about your own organization or your own life, I’d like to hear it. Good questions often become the next essay.

Send it to meor email Kara