What does it really take to be successful in today’s fast paced, competitive business environment? Two important factors: 1) meticulously managing your day-to-day operations, and 2) planning for the future. However, long-term planning often gets shortchanged because of the rigors of managing the day-to-day running of the business. Why is future planning important? Why should […]
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Winners Plan and Planners Win
Monday, August 19th, 2019Posted in Newsletter, Strategy Development, Strategy Management
When is it Time to Challenge Your Strategy?
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019Although CEO’s are constantly challenging the direction and vision of their companies, in the hectic day-to-day running of a business, it is sometimes difficult to recognize internal and external trends that can cause the company’s sales and earnings to slump. The more you can sensitize yourself to some well-defined warning signs, the earlier you can […]
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Get Focused, Be More Successful
Wednesday, April 24th, 2019I hope you enjoyed March Madness as much as I did. What I enjoy most is the team coherence–the way winning coaches prepare their players for each game. Successful coaches set clear game strategies that capitalize on what they do best collectively as a team. As a result, the coherence between game strategy and team […]
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Business Killer: Accepting the Status Quo
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019The status quo is defined as the current or existing state of affairs. To maintain the status quo is to keep things the way they are. Isn’t that the easier way? Wouldn’t it be nice if we all could just keep things the way they are and not change? Unfortunately, the world does not work […]
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What is Strategy Driven Innovation?
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018When the word innovation is brought up, the common thought process is to get a group of people in a room, brainstorm lots of ideas, some practical and some crazy, choose a few, and hope that you find the next big idea. People struggle to define what innovation is in an organization. Peter Drucker, the […]
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Short-Term Thinking = Missed Opportunities
Tuesday, September 18th, 2018Now that Labor Day is behind us, many business leaders have turned their attention to 2019 planning. This is a perfect time because it gives the organization sufficient time to reflect on year to date performance, forecast the last quarter, and begin to gather data to plan resources for the new year. That’s all very […]
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What Does a Strategic Leader Look Like?
Thursday, August 16th, 2018Strategy tends to take a back seat in the lives of many senior executives. It’s not that they don’t want to be more strategic, rather, they are not sure how. Some feel a few hours a week is enough to be a strategic leader. Others might believe that an annual retreat with key managers is […]
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Go Long – No It’s Not About Football
Thursday, July 26th, 2018The subject of our July blog is near and dear to our hearts – taking the long-term view to strategy. Being Strategist’s, we are always pushing the benefits of long-term thinking in leading and managing a business to current and prospective clients. So naturally we get excited and want to share when we come across […]
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Strategy and Tiger Woods
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018Tiger Woods is all the rage again in the golf world. Everyone is talking about his comeback and this past weekend he appeared to show off some of the “old” Tiger we remember from years ago. There are lessons to be learned from Tiger’s journey. In one of our previous posts dated August 2006, No […]
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Why Bother with Strategy?
Thursday, October 19th, 2017Mike Freedman, author of The Art and Discipline of Strategic Leadership defined strategy as the “cause of the nature and direction of an organization, and the framework for making business decisions.” Simply put, strategy defines the organization’s “rules of engagement,” and provides guidance on the choices you select: Which products and services you will offer (or […]
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