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Category Archives: Planning & Strategy
What Values Drive Your Company?
TPG Strategic Planning Building Blocks: Values Let’s play Fill-in-the-Blank. Think about how you see the work your company does, the culture throughout the company, how people behave toward one another and toward customers, and the practices and policies that are … Continue reading
What Matters Most?
For the past 13-plus years, Stanford MBA applicants have had to answer the essay question “What matters most to you and why?” The question tends to send applicants into a frenzy. How does one answer this simple yet challenging prompt? … Continue reading
4 Value-Adds When Leading & Facilitating Planning
Client comments tell us lots about what is – and isn’t – valued in planning. Continue reading
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Tagged Leadership, planning, strategic planning
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To Plan for Now, Know Your Vision
Strategic Planning Building Blocks: Vision It’s not so hard to plan when you know what you’re planning for. What’s your guiding star? A Strategic Plan that tangibly moves you toward a compelling – even exciting – future is a Plan … Continue reading
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Vision, Mission, Values. Personal Strategic Planning: Simply Stated
By Jake Kirpes I’ve been thinking about this line from W. Edward Deming: “It is not enough to do your best, you must know what to do, and then do your best.” Ok, fine. But how do you figure out … Continue reading
10. Don’t Lose the Core to Do the More: Maxims for Impact and Effectiveness
Tenth and last (for now) in a series of ten maxims I find myself repeating often. The Next Big Thing can be great – except when it isn’t. In the world of VUCA, permanent whitewater change, and the imperative for … Continue reading
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Tagged business productivity, Business Strategy, Effectiveness, Impact
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Industry Dematurity – Are You on Top of It?
“Half the task is recognizing the facets of impending change early enough to prepare.” Continue reading
From Strategy to Implementation, and Why it Matters
Originally posted on implementation matters:
Last week I discussed how supply chain strategy can be the ‘killer’ strategy for a business. The examples of Amazon and iTunes disrupting entire industries show particularly how a strategic vision can be translated into…
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10 Essential Elements to Get Your Planning Bus on the Right Road
It’s easy to forget how fundamental strategic planning is – we may even be tempted to forgo it these days, when business and the world are changing so fast that it can seem futile to lay down any real plans. … Continue reading
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