Strategic Directions

7 questions to help you evaluate your content marketing efforts Marketing content is a hot topic right now. And for good reason. Executed thoughtfully and consistently, it can have a very positive impact on brand awareness, website traffic, lead generation, customer loyalty and retention, and sales revenue. Every business wants to be in a place where prospects f...

This a re-issue of a post from 4 years ago, and it seems to me to be even more relevant today:

Strategic Planning is Dead It’s becoming clear that strategic “planning” is dead. Or at least no longer particularly useful when approached in the way we’ve done it over the past few deca

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A case study in making strategic thinking work for you:

What's behind a successful strategy? Collaboration & strategic thinking, of course! Essential to making strategy work Strategic thinking not only requires the ability to anticipate or project one, three, or five years into the future; it requires the ability to look at a business unit, division, or company as a whole. Viewing the organization as a network of interdependencies, each...

More on a theme about strategic thinking that we continue to nurture with our clients:

The Real Value of Goal Setting in Today Set your goals; plan your work; work your plan. This linear focus of traditional goal setting is incompatible with today’s world. Too many variables, complications, complexities,

Additional perspective on the present being our point of power.

Decide & Act Now: Leveraging the Power of the Present We have the power to decide and act only right now, at this point, at this time, standing here. We cannot act in the future.

Some great quotes that have shaped my view of strategy.

Underpinning Good Strategy Ex*****on Various thinkers have shaped my view of strategy over the years. In this post, I share the wisdom and insight of three strategists who helped

Some thoughts on the distinction between planning and thinking, ...strategically.

Strategic Planning and Strategic Thinking – How Best To Inform Decision Making Strategic Planning versus Strategic Thinking Both strategic planning and strategic thinking feed decision making. Strategic planning, typically conducted on an annual basis as an individual

The importance of communicating to employees not only what a strategy involves, but where the organization is heading, and why they are being asked to contribute, can transform a reluctant and skeptical workforce into a team of engaged collaborators.

Barriers to successfully implementing a business strategy: Communication It probably goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway. Communication plays an indispensable role in the successful implementation of a business strategy. Conversely, a

According to a recent survey of our LinkedIn connections, effective leadership is an essential ingredient in any effort to implement a business strategy. Get the inside story at...

Barriers to successfully implementing a business strategy: Leadership Not long ago, we reached out to members of our LinkedIn community to get their thoughts on barriers to successfully implementing a business strategy .