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Are You Ready for Your Strategic Planning?: Part 4: What’s your competitive advantage?
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different. Michael Porter Volvo chose to put a stake in the ground on safety. FedEx became the company everyone knew would get their package wherever it needed to…Are You Ready For Strategic Planning: Part 3 – What is your Vision?
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll We’ve been interviewing C-suite leaders for a white paper on strategy execution. Some of those leaders have…Are You Ready for Your Strategic Planning?: Part 1 – Know Your Customer
“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” Sam Walton How well you know your “one boss” – your customers –…Six principles to improve your leadership decisions
Our decisions help define us as individuals and organizations – our great decisions and our poor ones. You can click here to read our article in Smart Business.How can you allow your employees to be better innovators
In this article, we explore what neuroscience has to say about how we get in the way of innovation. You can click here to read the article.
Vision isn’t the answer
In this Smart Business article we discuss what questions a business needs to be clear on in order to be successful in the short run and long run. Vision is just one of those questions. Click here to read the…