Often by mid-year New Year’s resolution and strategic targets have long been abandoned. To prevent this, adjustments to the strategy should happen continually and consistently, but there’s no better time to check your course than now. To determine if your well-laid plans have gone asunder, ask yourself these essential questions: 1. To what extent is […]
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I recently gave a talk on the chemistry of strategy to the CEO Club of Boston. The talk was scheduled to start at 10 a.m. and to finish no later than 11 a.m. I’ve devoted the last forty years to this topic, so I could have talked for hours. But I didn’t. Why? Because I
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Fred J. Conforti, Author, Beyond Goals…Beyond LEAN In the previous article we talked about needing a vision for the future. We also outlined the typical shortcomings keeping any company from being the best it can be. Now let’s look at one of the most common shortcomings keeping companies from reaching their vision– no Plan. Not
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Keith Dambrot, says it this way, the worst thing you can do is make a gifted player over-think. As Men’s Basketball Coach at The University of Akron and the first person to discover LeBron James on the elementary school playgrounds of Akron Oh, he should know. Great players play all on instinct versus thinking he
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Dr. Thomas J. Saporito, CEO & Chairman, RHR International Dear Founding CEO, Congratulations on what you have accomplished. Your vision, imagination and plain hard work have turned the spark of an idea into an organization that employs thousands and provides valuable products and services to consumers around the world. Your personality and drive have become synonymous
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Mark Faust How much untapped potential lies within your business? If all the stars were to align and you had every tool you needed, if you made every effort possible, and if innovations yet to be thought of were implemented, how much more do you think you and your team as a whole could realistically
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Mark Faust Planning is planning and strategy is strategy, but to say that planning strategically, or “strategic planning” is a call of management is a bit of an oxy moron or at least a practice for the moronic. People claiming to be consultants who facilitate strategic planning probably don’t know the most rudimentary aspects of
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