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Maintaining the Status Quo – NOT (usually) the Best Strategy.
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As a strategist, I am continually evaluating the options and alternatives to plot the best course ahead. The “do nothing” alternative is always a...
Strategic Planning (3)
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My 80/20 Rule for strategic goals won't overload your capacity
You are most likely familiar with the 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...
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Can’t Problem-Solve Your Way to an Epic Strategy
Charting a new strategic direction is a dilemma of leadership. You have to have a strategic plan, but setting goals for the future may feel perilous....
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Don’t Neglect; Nurture New Strategic Thinking
As I mentioned in last week’s blog post, strategic planning should be a significant undertaking. It is both a highly visible - taking management away...
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Combat Epic Strategy Failure – Complete the Strategic planning process
Strategic planning is a highly visible and significant undertaking for management, so it is disturbing to read the statistics on their success. 80 -...