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4 Disciplines Essential to Strategy Implementation
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You have spent months working on your strategic plan, and now, finally, it has been approved. Kudos to you and your team! Now, what? How do you...
Strategic Management
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3 Steps to Evaluate Emerging Issues (without disrupting your plan)
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and pretty soon you have a dozen." -- John Steinbeck I like rabbits, but I love ideas. Too many of either...
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Are Your Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Strategic?
Plans are set, goals are defined, budgets are negotiated, and a new year begins. Teams review their goals and their budget, then go right back to...
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Renew Strategic Thinking without Rewriting your Strategic Plan
Strategic thinking can and does happen every day, but it is rarely adequately optimized. Here is why. Strategic thinking requires a shift in mindset...
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Break the Cycle of Setting and Forgetting this Year's Strategic Goals
The start of a year provides an ideal opportunity to define new goals and set a new course for the coming year. A new year invites optimism for this...
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How to Discern Operational Targets from Strategic Objectives.
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...
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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....
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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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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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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;...