Strategic Thinking & the Value of Changing Your Environment
Changing your environment has significant impacts on enhancing strategic thinking and creativity for business leaders.
Gain a Strategic Focus on Quality IF Customers are Important
People and companies have more choices than ever before. If you wish to remain in the race, quality must be more than an assumption; it must become a strategic focus.
Carmel and Strategic Thinking
Do you take time out of your busy schedule to think about the future? It helps to get away to empty your mind for strategic thinking. Have you been able to do that lately?
Thinking Long Term
We all know we should think long term. And we talk about thinking long term. But, do we actually think long term - and live with our decisions even when it's hard? Not nearly as often as we should!
Wildly Successful Exit Plans
I hear quite a bit about exit plans gone awry.
Can You See What Others Cannot?
Much of our success in consulting comes from seeing what others cannot. For example, assisting clients by helping them create better plans (that follow the quickest, most effective path to success), avoid costly and delay-ridden pitfalls that few realize exist, and successfully navigate through stormy waters......all quite important in [...]
Organizational Review Can Yield Strategic Weapons
Have you put your organization under review to look for ideas and solutions that may be right in front of you? Take a step back and look for those strategic weapons with an eagle eye at improving performance and your bottom line.
Strategy or Execution?
Strategy and execution are equally important for business success. If you find yourself stuck on one, find a way or a designate a person to attend to the other. If you looked at the last day, week or month, how much of your time are you spending on execution [...]
Strategy to Kick Off the New Year
Start your new year off with a renewed focus on strategy, the implementation and whether the strategy delivers results. Strategy is often thought about near year-end. What was your strategy and is it still valid? Is it effective? Do you have a short-list to think about if you want [...]
Keeping the Big Picture in Mind
It’s natural to get lost in the day-to-day project details. Schedule weekly reminders to make sure team members are keeping sight of the big picture. I’ve been focused on an ERP system go-live this week with one of my key clients, and it reminds me that it is easy [...]