being strategic

7 Steps To Build Your Annual Plan Like A Pro

Whenever we get toward the end of the year, we start thinking about next year. The plans, programs, and activities will allow us to meet and exceed our goals. Here are our seven steps to building your annual plan like a [...]

7 Steps To Build Your Annual Plan Like A Pro

Great Leaders Think Dirty Thoughts

As we climb the corporate ladder, we catch on that people on the lower rungs do the tactical, heavy work. Further up the ladder, they get to sit at desks and focus on strategy. So, we set our sights on the [...]

Great Leaders Think Dirty Thoughts

Don’t Manage Like a Stooge, Look Before You Leap

We are all in a hurry with our businesses. We all want results immediately. Because of this, we often act immediately without taking the time to think-up alternate ideas or think thru the implications of what are about to do. Something [...]

Don’t Manage Like a Stooge, Look Before You Leap

A "Complete Sentence" Creates A Complete Strategy

To obtain the best results from our marketing plans, we need to make sure our approach is well-thought and complete. This is especially true of trending marketing tactics, (i.e., social media and discount coupon sites).

 We feel pressure to use these [...]

A "Complete Sentence" Creates A Complete Strategy

Off-Site Meetings: Last Century Technology

The most up to date list of locations can be found on the Places page within Brainstorming Tools section. Did use an abacus or slide rule to build your FY'10 budgets? To prepare and distribute information about next year's Marketing Plan [...]

Off-Site Meetings: Last Century Technology

Strategic Sweet Spot

According to Harvard Business Review, the strategic sweet spot of a company is "where it meets customer's needs in a way that rivals can't, given the context in which it competes." It is where your company's capabilities match customer needs in [...]

Strategic Sweet Spot
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