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

Engaging Leader

The Simple Strategic Plan (SSP) is a step-by-step process for taking an idea and putting it into action, for both profit and purpose.

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Selling on Amazon for Dummies: How to Get Started Selling on Amazon

Strategy Driven

A strong business plan starts off with a mission statement. Try to use a SWOT analysis to determine your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It also gives you a chance to recognize any obstacles that might stand in your way. What are you trying to accomplish? What promise are you making to your customers?

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Back to Basics: Interviewing for Your Next Sales Position

Strategy Driven

While you are checking the company’s website in course of your research, check out the ‘mission statement’. Even to the point of doing a SWOT analysis on them – this will clarify, in your mind, how the industry works, who the main players are etc. What does it tell you about their company culture? Don’t get caught out.

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The Strategic Planning Process

Coaching Tip

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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Three Quick Ways to Improve Your Strategy-Making

Harvard Business Review

The up-front SWOT analysis. Perhaps the single most common way to kick off a strategy process is with a SWOT analysis. This is why SWOT analyses tend to be long, involved, and costly, but not compelling or valuable. Think of the last time you got a blinding insight on the business in question from an up-front SWOT analysis.

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Strategic Planning Steps

CO2

Mission The mission statement is your statement of purpose. The mission statement does not describe the methods you use to accomplish your vision; it describes why you exist to accomplish the vision. The vision statement should be succinct and clear; everyone should know where you’re going.