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Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren’t Strategic, or Even Plans

Harvard Business Review

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper.

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What investment in your business are you REALLY making?

Strategy Driven

The object of service is to be so amazing that one person tells another person, or one person posts to their Facebook account, or both. His website, www.gitomer.com , will lead you to more information about training and seminars, or email him personally at salesman@gitomer.com. Let’s get real here, when J.D. Least crappy? How’s yours?

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