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Strategic Planning (4)

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The Big Squeeze - Competitive Market Pressures from all sides

The Strategic Dilemma: An industry leader contacted us to bring a fresh approach to their strategy planning process. In recent years, their long run...

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Strategy Boost Lift-Off

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Strategy Boost™ has Lift-Off!

We just created an exciting ‘lift-off’ for one of our clients with our new program Strategy Boost™ and I’m so excited to share what I witnessed. By...

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Bad DIY

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3 Pitfalls of the DIY Approach to Strategy Development

Making a decision to engage a professional to help develop your strategy may seem like a lavish investment, yet here are common pitfalls to avoid...

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Don’t Unwind Your Good Work

How do you ensure that your great plan doesn’t unwind during implementation?

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Is Your Organization a Strategy Killer

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Is Your Organization A Strategy Killer?

As a strategist I am extremely fortunate to spend the majority of my time working with clients to shape their ideas into new strategies to achieve...

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Do You Have The Grit To Lead Into The Future?

3 Indications that you don’t have the grit to lead your company to a new level of performance. Developing a new idea or a new direction for your...

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Do You Have an Air Sandwich

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Do You Have An Air Sandwich?

An air sandwich? It couldn't sustain you very long, could it? Yet, time and time again we see organizations trying to drive strategic performance...

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Go Slow To Go Fast

I recently received a survey from my son’s school principal. There was a brief email asking everyone to complete a survey: a list of 20 plus...

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Should you tear up your new plan? No, lead strategy implementation.

You put so much effort into your beautiful new strategic direction. It is well crafted; you were able to effectively engage multiple stakeholder...

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Are You Patient Enough To Lead Your Strategy Implementation?

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Are You Patient Enough To Lead Your Strategy Implementation?

Were you impatient as a child? Give me, Give Me, GIVE ME! As a child, we are all pretty impatient. But we grew up. We mellowed, and we learned (to...

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