7/30/2007 01:23:00 PM

Steering is this: empowering leaders, resourcing plans, evaluating outcomes.

The active alignment of money, mandate and measurement is *not* judging tactics or leading execution. Steering is all about alignment. Steering is not making things happen. It is catalyzing the circumstances that allow for things to happen.

Steering is about a certain indirect influence on the future that is always already coming. The public face of steering is strategy embodied in initiatives. One steers initiatives. One executes projects.

One steers through initiatives as one turns a ship with the slight movement of its wheel. One executes projects as one swabs the deck of the ship that turns.

The alchemy of influence on a future to come, on an uncertain arrival, is the art of (time) travel through that which is the auspices of that which works toward that which is to come.

other is this moments:
profit is this
commerce is this
wealth is this
execution is this