As the old saying goes, failing to plan is planning to fail. Good leaders know that forethought and preparation are necessary to succeed in this sense. Yet, it's not unusual for founders, executives ...

To respond to the complexities that appear in business growth, you must scale your business. The first step to scaling your business is to start with a focus on your strategy with an emphasis on ...

I recently helped a large industrial manufacturing company with its strategic planning process. With so much uncertainty surrounding autonomous vehicles, 5G, robotics, global trade, and the oil ...

When preparing for 2025 and all the unknowns the future inevitably holds, a thorough strategic plan is critical to driving meaningful outcomes for any business. Effective strategic plans reflect on ...

Learn how to integrate cyclical planning into your work. One of the challenges with strategic planning is that both the process of planning and the output (your organisation’s written strategic plan) ...

Nonprofit leaders, midlevel managers, and frontline staff sometimes view strategic planning as one more task heaped onto near-impossible workloads. After all, developing a strategic plan — by ...

Note: This article is the second in a series about how firms can successfully reassess and reimagine their business models. Read the first article here. Failure to plan is planning for failure. That ...

Here’s how to best think about strategic planning, communication rhythms and maintaining alignment for consistent growth as you plan for next year. Daily and weekly communication rhythms ensure ...

Successful companies go through a variety of business cycles. Unfortunately, many in leadership positions don’t plan for those stages and aren’t properly capitalized when a transition occurs. “Without ...

If “raise more money” is on your roadmap, here’s how to translate it from a placeholder into a funded strategy.

Does everyone on your team know all the plays? It’s Fall. It’s football season. It’s fourth quarter. And for many companies it is the time for budgeting and strategic planning. Companies have both ...