Our Latest Strategic Thinking

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....

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,....

Pandemic or not, businesses need to review plans for this year and plan for next year.

Leadership teams must think through how the world has changed and how they will respond to thrive and grow....

Large group strategic planning meetings are typically conducted away from the office to foster an environment where folks engage with each other differently. Today, most of us are working....

Raise your hand if you were alive on November 22, 1963.

I recently posed this question to a conference room of 30 senior executives and board members. We were in the opening section of a....

“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 successful and fast-growth technology company on a....

In the recent Harvard Business Review article, Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business, authors Michael Harris and Bill Tayler explore this question by taking a close look at how Wells Fargo’s....

 Shel Silverstein’s book, The Missing Piece has been a favorite of mine since I was a little girl. I still have a copy and love sharing it with anyone that notices it on my bookshelf. The story is....