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4 Disciplines Essential to Strategy Implementation

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...

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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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Strategic KPIs

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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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New Strategic Management Plan

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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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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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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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