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Is NOW the Right Time for Strategic Planning?
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There is no specific hard and fast rule about exactly how often you should conduct strategic planning. However, with ever-shortening life-cycles, and...
Strategic Planning (3)
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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 -...
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Are Tacticians an Obstacle in Strategy Development?
Tacticians are those brilliant folks on your team that know how to get things done. They are not typically the ones that come up with the new ideas,...
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How Can You Use Entrepreneurial Vision in Your NEW Strategic-Plan?
I live in San Francisco, so let me use a hometown illustration to answer this great question. We are well known for our sourdough bread. This type of...
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What outcomes to expect from Strategic Planning?
A successful strategic planning process produces a long-range plan to guide decision-making for years to come. Therefore, a multi-year plan document...