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The Transperience Actbook: Framing Actions

Laust Lauridsen, MD

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Strategic planning is essential for success, but let’s face it: too often, it falls flat. Plans can feel irrelevant, disconnected from reality, or they are seen as overly complicated, leaving everyone wondering how to actually make them work.

The reason for resistance to change is not limited to old habits and fixed beliefs. It can also arrive from an unwillingness to be squeezed into a too tight box with more command and control than flexibility and freedom.

Certainly, the path from strategic intention to tangible impact can be full of hurdles, leading to frustration and inefficiency. Sometimes even the most carefully designed roadmap leads nowhere, because the landscape is too strange, unpredictable or impenetrable, and people are too busy with their own tasks and challenges to care about it.

But having a strategy is still crucial — it shows where to focus and what direction to take. The problem is trying to force it into a rigid plan or project. That’s where framing actions can make a real difference.

Framing is about shaping change from the future you want, rather than clinging to the past. Instead of creating a fixed route, you build a flexible, dynamic space where your intentions can blend with circumstances and actions naturally follow. Such a space can take various forms and manifest…

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Laust Lauridsen, MD
Laust Lauridsen, MD

Written by Laust Lauridsen, MD

Help leaders and teams go beyond to transform and perform. Writer, speaker and facilitator.

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