How to make strategy relevant to your team

The heading may confound some. Is there any irrelevant strategy? The surprising answer is YES! Very often strategies are cooked in faraway places, in faraway contexts, and in faraway language -atleast for most of your managers. So there is scepticism, “let’ s watch till this blows over..” kind of stance by many managers. From my practice, I have learnt that the best way to get your team on board is to allow them to focus on “short term strategies” . An oxymoron, but it works! Hemant