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Just as the last year presented unprecedented management challenges, post-pandemic strategy development conversations will face issues never experienced before.

Here are three realities to....

Last weekend felt like the beginning of the beginning. 

Like many here in the US, my family celebrated the start of summer by joining two other families for a camping trip. We planned the trip....

These days there is a lot of planning going on.

Planning spurred by post-pandemic optimism and planning to reestablish management disciplines dropped during a year of pandemic survival. But not....

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You are in a conference room (or now in a virtual meeting) where a team member presents a slide of data in a teeny-tiny font. You think you have seen these....

2020 challenged our tactical brilliance, but it was not the year to engage in strategic planning. So, as we begin 2021, many leadership groups wonder if they should re-engage their long-term....

2020 was a horrible year. The massive changes and uncertainty destabilized everything, the least of which was our ‘planning and managing disciplines.’ As we enter our second year of this global....

This year has been full of ups and downs for all of us. This roller coaster has taken a toll on long-range planning efforts, and rightly so.  But, as we enter our second year of this pandemic,....

If it is the start of a new year, it is goal setting time. 

If you are like most, you reviewed how well you performed against last year’s goals and then updated this year’s objectives with....

The start of a year provides an ideal opportunity to define new goals and set a new course for the coming year, and no year has been more anticipated than the start of 2021. Most of us believe....

This article is part of our Strategic Thinking During a Pandemic series.

Last week I was invited to participate in a panel on how to support the nonprofit sector through the pandemic. We have....