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Is Context the Missing Piece in Your Strategic Thinking?
Let me know if this rings true for you. You are in a conference room (or now in a virtual meeting) where a team member presents a slide of data in a...
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Mergers and consolidations: concepts to embrace NOW
This article is part of our Strategic Thinking During a Pandemic series. Last week I was invited to participate in a panel on how to support the...
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When I look back, I see perseverance
My grandparents had twelve children. Like many of their friends and family members, they married and started their family in the early days of the...
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Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, Strategic Thinking: All the same?
Thinking is very trendy these days. There are multiple articles promoting design thinking, the value of systems thinking and the need for greater...
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Too Many Goals! Apply strategic thinking to motivate not overwhelm.
“What are the greatest challenges you face?” This was the question I posed to stimulate a brainstorming exercise during a recent Strategic Thinking...
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Why is Strategic Thinking Important - now more than ever
For years “strategic thinking” has been reserved for executive team meetings or board rooms as part of a firm’s strategic planning process. However,...
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How to look for strategic business partners?
Partnering has become a favored strategy to achieve growth goals. Favored because it is often faster to partner than to take the time to build what...
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Are you a good strategic thinker? 5 Signs You Could Be.
Strategic thinking capabilities are a huge asset to an organization. Finding good internal strategic thinkers and leveraging them in our planning...
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Which comes first strategic positioning or strategy? Neither.
The relationship between strategy and positioning are both the result of strategic planning in which you first set the context within which you...
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Actively Promote New Strategic Thinking for it to Serve You
When developing and implementing strategy you are in the business of change, fighting against the inertia of the status quo. Even the most brilliant...