Archive for the ‘Strategic Planning’ Category
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
I often wondered why theories like the law of attraction work. The only explaination I came up with is that we all have a limited ability to focus on ideas. I always have many distractions floating around in my head. Anyway these theories tend to focus our ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
I do not see a problem with multiple visions as long as they support each other in some way. I do not think they can be totally isolated and definitely can not be a negative influence on each other. I do not see a problem with having a ...
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
I have seen people cringe at the mention of strategic planning. I think that this process is getting a bum rap. Strategic planning is made up of 4 critical sub-processes; i.e. (1) A GAP Analysis to determine weaknesses, (2) Documenting the vision to define your goal, (3) Identifying resources ...
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
After a discussion about strategic planning I had someone tell me "Our purpose is not about plans or execution of plans. That is simply busy work." That did not mean that this person was not interested in planning, it was just not their focus. The problem is that without ...
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
One of the popular questions we get at our seminars is; why do I run out of time each week? They will tell us how they set up goals and priorities but still run out of time. The simple answer is, that they did not factor in the ...
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
I saw your message on Facebook and will put this on the blog. You were looking for the industry survey that showed why strategic planning was a good thing. I think you are referring to the Evergreen project. That is the most popular reference I see. ...
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Before you get lost in the details, take a step back. Outline a clear vision and a coherent set of values for your new business. Develop a mission statement and use it to define some short-term goals and priorities. There are three elements needed in advance ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
I am going to make a rash assumption that you have already defined yourself (your beliefs, values and purpose for being). How about your business (OK, another assumption is that you own or help run a business)? Have you defined what values will drive your business? What is the ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
There are many theories and class on how to be a leader, manager or even a skilled employee. I have found books and classes on how to do strategic planning. There is even a book dedicated to Execution theory (Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy , ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
I often wonder why some businesses have such trouble implementing a High Performance team. Over time the meetings start to be canceled in preference to real time task resolutions. Sometime between eight and twelve months the project is stalled. The group refuses to get out of there comfort zone. What ...
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