Cecilia Lynch

Cecilia Lynch, founder, CEO, and chief strategist at Focused Momentum LLC, a leading authority on strategic thinking and strategy development. She is the creator of Strategy Class®, the training program she launched to demystify the overwhelming task of developing a strategic plan using her proprietary tools and planning methods.

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The three reasons NOT to skip the year's mid-year progress review.

Usually, the six month mark is the time to review progress against goals and update strategic thinking, based on changes to planning assumptions. But, with the global pandemic, this year is far from usual. Given this, is a mid-year check-in against...

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System Thinking vs Design Thinking

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Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, Strategic Thinking: All the same?

Interest in thinking is trending. I have read multiple articles promoting design thinking and the value of systems thinking. We are also seeing...

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Motivate by Strategic Thinking

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Too Many Goals! Apply strategic thinking to motivate not overwhelm.

“What are the greatest challenges you face?” This was the question I posed to stimulate a brainstorming exercise during a recent Strategic Thinking...

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How to turn a budget cut into a strategic thinking opportunity.

As the fiscal year ends, the planning teams wrap up the annual planning and distribute next year’s budgets. Ideally, this would be a time of...

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Budget planning stress

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Why do so many executives hate budgeting?

“It just sucks. Every year we try to make improvements, and it gets better, but it still sucks.” This is a sentiment expressed by the CEO of a...

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strategy hijacked

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Is Your Strategy Being Hijacked?

In their Harvard Business Review article, Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business, authors Michael Harris and Bill Tayler explore this question by...

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Strategic Focus Lost Very Lost

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Three Symptoms You may Lack Strategic Focus (and what to do about it!)

A constant in strategic management is the need to respond quickly to perceived threats or potential opportunities. More than ever before, the speed...

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forest for the trees

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Are you missing the Forest for the Trees?

Data is front and center in today’s management team meetings. Executives report spending more and more time pouring over their dashboards and...

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Slow down and move ahead - sounds like summer to me.

A slower pace, time to reconnect with friends and family, spending more time out of doors, or finally setting off on a trip months in the planning;...

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Connect Progress with the Plan at Mid-Year.

Leading a project, team, or company can feel all-consuming. There is so much time and attention taken by planning and managing that the equally...

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