Apr 24 2013
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Strategic Planning: What To Do When Crises Hits “There’s just no sense in detailed planning because today’s world moves much too fast.” I hear versions of this mantra more and more lately. Granted, there’s a grain of truth here; the world is moving very fast. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t plan. Most of …
Apr 17 2013
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The Most Important Parts of Strategic Planning As I refined the strategic planning model I use today, I winnowed out steps I found so long and cumbersome that they detracted from actually completing a plan which organizations really need. So, everything that’s left is critical to accomplishing a strategic plan. But, there are …
Apr 10 2013
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How Leaders Should Use A Strategic Plan To understand how leadership should use the strategic plan, let’s look at a few things the plan is not. A strategic plan is not a marketing plan. It is the foundation for a marketing plan. How can you create a marketing plan if you don’t know …
Apr 03 2013
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Why Leaders Need Strategic Plans Should you have a strategic plan? Unless you are leading a large organization, you may be thinking you don’t need a strategic plan, or that such planning is not your responsibility. Think again! If you are responsible for any part of an organization, you should create a strategic …
Feb 04 2010
Recently, I read a short letter in a major business magazine which stated that mission statements need to be written by the people who have to follow them. I was in an organization once which subscribed to that theory and I can say that the only good that came from the effort was …
Jan 29 2010
I like to ask people if they know their company’s mission. Some give a somewhat decent rendition of what they think is the mission statement, some just say they don’t know, some mutter some platitude about customer service, and a few look at me like I was from Mars. For some reason I’m …
