An Overview of the Top 7 Failures to Avoid in Strategic Planning

By Heyden Enochson

Leadership & Strategy
At OnStrategy, we have the good fortune of reviewing hundreds of strategic plans each month. It can be a stressful job, but we’re always reminded how great a privilege it is...

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Strategic Decisions: An Exercise to Define Your Competitive Edge

By Todd Ballowe

Competitive Advantages
In our first two posts in this series, we covered an exercise to solve simple strategic issues and the the GE WorkOut to solve more complex problems in your organization. In...

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Strategic Decisions: The Downloadable WorkOut Exercise from GE

By Heyden Enochson

With today’s ever-evolving world and the speed at which organization’s change, it’s more important than ever to create an environment and team with the agility to swiftly adapt to your changing...

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Strategic Decisions: An Exercise to Solve Simple Strategic Issues

By Heyden Enochson

Leadership & Strategy
Keeping strategy agile requires the constant ebb and flow of traffic within your business and its plan for success. It means on-ramping and off-ramping priorities while having a team that’s capable...

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How to Prepare Your Strategy for the Next Recession

By Heyden Enochson

Market-level Strategies
Inverted yield curve. Trade wars. GDP. Bubble. As the buzzwords surrounding recession are thrown around in the news and in board rooms across the globe, it has our organization and our...

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An Exercise to Help Identify Where You Need to Shift Culture

By Heyden Enochson

Leadership & Strategy
In our previous newsletter, we defined what culture is, how it impacts strategic planning, and the three common scenarios we see clients face between strategy and culture. With the foundational information...

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What’s the Fuss with Culture? Why Does Strategy Depend on It?

By Heyden Enochson

Leadership & Strategy
Let’s address the elephant in the room – strategic planning impacts culture, and culture impacts strategic planning. Strategy and culture have a relationship that can be hard to define. Strategy is...

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4 Quick & Powerful Tips to be a Better Leader. No Leadership Book Required.

By Heyden Enochson

Leadership & Strategy
Editor’s Note: Our next series of newsletters will focus on culture shift. Since shifting culture starts at the top, this newsletter focuses on leadership. We’ll be jumping into culture in our next...

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Struggling with Strategy Execution? It Might Be a Culture Problem

By Heyden Enochson

Execution & Implementation Process
In one of our articles last week, we started with the famous Peter Drucker quote, “Culture eats strategy for lunch.” And it may be overused , but it’s certainly true....

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Annual Planning is Dead

By Heyden Enochson

Strategy Reviews
Well, we don’t actually mean that. But it’s certainly enough to get your attention! What we do mean is setting annual plans and only adapting and changing them once a year...

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