Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In the context of our increasingly disrupted, globalizing, and multicultural world, leaders greatly appreciate the security and comfort of clear-cut strategic plans for the future. Tragically, popular strategic business analyses are deeply flawed and give a false sense of comfort and security to business leaders. Cognitive Bias.

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SWOT Analysis Groupthink Strategic Planning 174

Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

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 […]. Conquer your kryptonite and be a superhero!

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Strategic Planning Gantt Chart Planning SWOT 217

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 22, 2018

My partners and I decided that the strategic planning process was the best experiential way that emerging leaders could shape the future of the organization. In one of the first conversations about our new strategic planning process I had with my partners, we identified Macy as one of those emerging leaders.

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Strategic Planning Leadership SWOT Planning 214

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 17, 2014

By writing out, in a SWOT (the firm''s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats ) worksheet, each leadership team member''s perception of the company''s "identity elements" becomes a work-in-progress toward clarifying what the leadership team collectively (in a combined and confidential SWOT) wants to see happen.

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Strategic Planning Planning Process SWOT 150

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 26, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. Should the Strategic Plan Rest in Peace? At one time, business executives believed that strategic planning was the answer to all of their problems. Today, many are questioning the strategic plan’s usefulness. Involvement of Strategic Planning Consultants.

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Strategic Planning Planning CEO SWOT 100

CO2

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

This annual strategic review and planning meeting may take as long as a week (because you will be pre-deciding how to act should certain key assumptions come to pass), but when done well it leads to a more purposeful and energized commitment to the future. If gaps emerge, action plans must be developed.

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Balanced Scorecard Review Strategic Planning Real Estate 79

LDRLB

JULY 6, 2011

At one time, business executives believed strategic planning was the answer to all of their problems. The process that started in the 1950’s evolved through various strategic analyses including SWOT, Michael Porter’s competitive model, core competencies, strategic intent and business transformation. They have to.

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Strategic Planning Planning Real Estate SWOT 121