The journey of strategic corporate planning, especially when setting one, five, or ten-year targets, isn't a roll of the dice. It demands deliberate action and meticulous planning. The difference is clear between companies that carefully design and follow through with their plans and those that drift without direction. Successful organizations operate like a well-coordinated rowing team, each member in sync, propelling the boat forward with defined objectives. This article summarizes a more … [Read more...]
Are You a Ball Roller?
Have you ever been stuck with a large group of people, all with good ideas, but the very thought of getting started as a group is absolutely paralyzing? That’s because groups aren't good at starting things. A person is. And yet, we celebrate consensus and compromise and synergy and brainstorming and all that crap. It’s not bad crap, in all fairness. It just isn’t everything. For example, one of the worst things about brainstorming is that it leaves you overwhelmed by all the things you … [Read more...]