Strategy

10 Exceptional Strategies For Extraordinary Executives

10 Exceptional Strategies For Extraordinary Executives

Most extraordinary executives would agree that business practices evolve over time, and our experiences turn into knowledge. My such experience…

5 years ago

Strategic Planning Must Change With The Times

If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not…

8 years ago

How Many of Your Organization’s Strategic Initiatives Succeed?

My guess is that your answer is less than half or at least “not enough of them.” Delivering on strategic…

9 years ago

The Outcomes of Strategic Best Practices: Mediocrity and Disappointment

Strategy management processes and the so-called “best practices” most organizations follow have not kept pace with the demands of the…

9 years ago

Get Off The Strategy Merry-Go-Round

Most organizations, and even most strategy consultants, are using strategic planning frameworks built for business models that were designed during…

9 years ago

Leading Transformational Strategy – Next Practices

Not all business strategies require the same degree of change to be considered successful. Many are simply a continuation of…

10 years ago

Strategy – Why It’s Broken and How To Fix It

Only 20%-30% of corporate and business unit strategies successfully deliver expected results. That is a bold statement. However, this statistic…

10 years ago

Flip Your Organization Chart

Do you know what everyone in your organization does? To find out, you might want to change your perspective. Years…

10 years ago

Strategy, Capability & Really Bad Advice

Today’s post is a rather short rant, but one I felt compelled to put forth. I just finished reading an…

12 years ago

Is the Customer Always Right?

Is the customer really always right? How far should a company go to satisfy their clientele or customer base? What…

12 years ago

Innovation’s Best Kept Secret

Those of you who frequent this blog know that I'm not a huge fan of either/or propositions. In most, if…

12 years ago

Contingency Planning

The best leaders always have a back-up plan, so my question to you is: what's your Plan B? My experience…

13 years ago

Not All Research is Meaningful

Just because something gets published doesn't necessarily mean it has any value. In fact, misleading or wrong information that finds…

13 years ago

M&A Without Buying the Company

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic…

13 years ago

Addiction Marketing

"Addiction Marketing" is a phrase I started using a few years back while waiting in line for my drink at Starbucks. I…

13 years ago

Brand Exposure

Do you understand the difference between presence, visibility and overexposure? Have you figured out how to apply the laws of…

13 years ago