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How to Prepare for Strategy Discussions?
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Strategic planning participants often express the desire to be well prepared before the first group meeting. It is understandable that a dedicated...
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Maintain Strategic Focus through Annual Planning
For those with a fiscal calendar starting in January, the autumn months will be dominated by one thing: budgeting. By mid-September, the budget...
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Maintaining the Status Quo – NOT (usually) the Best Strategy.
As a strategist, I am continually evaluating the options and alternatives to plot the best course ahead. The “do nothing” alternative is always a...
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My 80/20 Rule for strategic goals won't overload your capacity
You are most likely familiar with a Pareto Principle which states that 80 percent of the effects come from 20 percent of the causes; this is the...
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Has Your Strategic Plan put the Big Rocks in First?
Last week I wrote a post on creating a strategic thinking discipline to accommodate the ever-changing environments we all live and work in today: Is...
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Is NOW the Right Time for Strategic Planning?
There is no specific hard and fast rule about exactly how often you should conduct strategic planning. However, with ever-shortening life-cycles, and...
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One Concise Visual Can Capture Your Whole Strategy
This week we have a guest post from my long-time collaborator and master graphic recorder and illustrator, Emily Shepard.
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10 Signs Your Strategic Planning is Failing you
Like a great journey, charting a company’s new direction can be filled with risk. Adding to a management team’s challenging is that strategic...
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Corporate strategy business strategy functional strategy; why so many?
Why are there so many types of strategy, and how do you keep them all connected? This is a really important question as planning happens all the time...