Your strategy is a hypothesis. Use a mid-year review to test its accuracy.

By Heyden Enochson

Strategy Reviews
Your strategy is a hypothesis. It’s your team’s best guess as to what will yield long-term success. So far this year, you’ve been implementing a strategy with a supporting set of...

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3 Reasons You’ll Fail Without a Q1 Strategy Review

By Erica Olsen

Strategy Reviews
It’s the end of the first quarter. As a football coach, would you skip a huddle with your team? Probably not. So, then why are you skipping a quarter-end huddle with...

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5 Traps of Personal Productivity Management

By Todd Ballowe

Execution & Implementation Process
Performance management is a problem. More specifically, how most people approach their own performance management is riddled with pitfalls. This is evident with the torrent of self-help and self-management books...

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Strategic Implementation

By Erica Olsen

Execution & Implementation Process
Do you know how to write a strategic plan? Most people don't. Scores of business school students are produced each year who don't know how to actually produce a viable plan....

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4 Tips to Keep Your Strategy From Becoming a New Year’s Cliché

By Heyden Enochson

Execution & Implementation Process
New year, old clichés. This year, I’m going to . Whether your organization is starting a new strategic plan or is executing against a rolling one, it’s important to not...

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Getting Inked by Inc.com

By Heyden Enochson

Execution & Implementation Process
Creating and executing a strategic plan isn’t always easy. Nor is it always fun. But remaining dedicated and motivated to the process allows you to see the light at the end...

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Strategy High – Yeah, it’s a real thing.

By Heyden Enochson

Execution & Implementation Process
It’s the 20th mile in the marathon. You’re bruised, beaten, and blistered, yet you continue moving forward. Why? The feeling of crossing that finish line is like nothing else. Closing the...

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Is Your Strategy Surviving or Thriving?

By Cammy Elquist LoRé

Strategy Reviews
It’s a new quarter, and chances are there is something about your strategic plan that needs to be addressed. All master forms of diligence aside, strategic planning is not a sure...

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Uncovering A Horrible Strategic Plan

By Cammy Elquist LoRé

Scorecards & Dashboards
Clichés often have an original meaning that is powerful because the saying has been found to be deeply true. Yet, many times these sayings get diluted and misused so much that...

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What Are the Most Popular Management Tools Globally?

By Shannon Sage

Strategic Planning Applications
A global survey concluded that these five management tools were used most often in 2013: Strategic Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Employee Engagement Surveys, Benchmarking and Balanced Scorecards.

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