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Don’t Get Lost or Hurt: The Vital Role of Leadership Strategy and Tactics

Let's Grow Leaders

Balancing leadership strategy and tactics is critical for leaders at every level of an organization. However, when you don’t pay attention to tactics and effective management, you create needless conflicts, frustrations and hurt feelings. Tactical Questions to Help You Avoid “Injury”. The Danger of Focusing Only on Tactics .

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Welcome to Strategic Planning 2.0

N2Growth Blog

As a strategy consultant, I have had the opportunity to review a lot of strategic plans over the years. It’s been truly amazing to discover just how many major organizations develop strategic plans that contain little more than a whole lot of budget estimates and revenue projections. Strategic Planning 2.0

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4 Strategic Planning Traps and How to Avoid Them

The Practical Leader

I recently had a call with a CEO about facilitating a strategic planning retreat this fall with 15 of their top leaders. Looking at the fairly typical approach they’ve used before, four common strategic planning problems immediately popped out: The agenda was loaded with about 17 reviews and updates.

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075: Conquer the Entrepreneur’s Kryptonite: Simple Strategic Planning | with James Woosley

Engaging Leader

The kryptonite that threatens to kill the dreams of every entrepreneur is strategic planning. Many people have no plan and try shooting from the hip, so effort and resources are wasted or unfocused. Others get bogged down in an overly-detailed planning […]. Engaging Leader™ Tactics'

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How To Move From Being Tactical To Being Truly Strategic

Eric Jacobson

Some of my favorite takeaways from the book include: Strategic plans should clearly describe where the business is today, where it’s going, and how it’s going to get there. If your strategic plan is long, complicated, and not crystallized into a usable one- to two-page document, then there is work to be done.

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8 Weeks to Get Juiced – A Better Strategic Planning Process for Consulting Firms

David A Fields

If you develop an annual plan for your consulting firm, there’s a decent chance you sit down with your senior team and/or advisors for a day or two to hammer out your objectives, strategies and tactics. (If If you don’t engage in any strategic planning for your consulting firm then, as the old saying goes, “When … Continued.

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The Year Is Half Over…Do You Know Where Your Strategic Plan Is?

CO2

According to Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard, the main cause of strategic planning failure is poor execution. And Kotter International determined that, on average, 70% of new, large-scale strategic initiatives fall short of their goal, as did a similar McKinsey & Company 2009 study. It’s not too late !