For-profit and non-profit organizations can dramatically improve their quality decision-making by applying ‘smart quality’ filters to their strategic planning. Is your organization caught in the “debate and wait” syndrome? If it is, there are likely patterns that need to be changed. For decades, organizations have used strategic planning as a stapled tool to rethink what [...]
Strategy work is just that, work. Solutions rarely fall from the sky into our laps. It takes a razor-sharp focus to rethink your organization’s optimum solution that will bring it to its next level of growth. While building a successful strategy is hard, it is also exciting. You get to choose the best next direction, [...]
Management and managing is a constant process. Regardless if you are an organization with 5 employees or 5,000 or more, you know that management doesn’t end when you hire a new employee. This is just where managing begins. There are many many books written about how to manage employees but here are three practical [...]
In the changing business landscape knowing how to build and manage a strategy that wins is essential. As we all know now, the pandemic happened overnight and the workforce and business landscape changed suddenly. In part, due to a combination of global events, existing businesses needed to quickly change gears. The writing was on [...]
Whether you’re a young CEO or a very experienced one, there are specific things that truly successful CEOs know how to do well. They know how to build a fantastic team. They focus on what matters. And as a result, they know how to grow their business. These three things are common to all [...]
For the past 18 months, people have felt a strong need to make things happen: To improve things by developing more innovative strategies. At a recent client meeting, a CEO of a B2B middle-market company talked about his struggle to build market share. This is a widespread business problem many CEOs face, if not [...]
Companies today are in a transition brought on by the global pandemic, and its aftermath impact on business, society, and all of the interrelated organizations is incalculable. Transitions are now a key aspect of any organization’s change process. Just ask any CEO of any business if they are rethinking their organizational strategy and the [...]
Implementing meaningful, lasting change takes time for any organization. But all too often, leaders rush to evaluate the change they're trying to make and become discouraged because they don't see an immediate impact. Although this is understandable from a human nature perspective, it isn't realistic to think you can change in weeks what took years [...]
Building a sustainable business requires the organization’s full cooperation. While every company handles strategic situations differently, all want to leverage their strongest leaders and ideas in a way that sustains the business and fuels its growth into the future. Realigning a business is a complex project, but a successful organizational transition does not focus [...]
It happened so fast. With one quick COVID-19 jolt, everything about businesses, their strategy, plans, and even their products and go-to-market strategy had to change. Many had been in business for nearly a decade. For example, one company had a slow start during the first several years, they had achieved modest growth in revenue [...]