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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 incremental adjustments and made a renewed commitment to keep...
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Usually, the six month mark is the time to review progress against goals and update strategic thinking, based on changes to planning assumptions....
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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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“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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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