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Small Business Owners – Feeling Overwhelmed?
Attn: Small Business Owners Feeling overwhelmed? You can’t do everything. You can't fix everything at once. You need to pick a few strategic things that you and your team must focus on. Things will never be perfect. As long as you’re making progress toward your...
Do Your Employees Know What is Expected of Them?
Attn: CEO’s Do your employees know what is expected of them? How do you know? Are you frustrated with the level of your team’s execution? These two things are often linked. Leaders assume that everyone knows what is expected and then get frustrated when those...
CEO’s – What Do You Spend Your Time On?
Attn CEO’s Think about what you spent your time on last week. Was it strategic or tactical? What are the things that ONLY you can do? Those things tend to be strategic: - Setting overall company direction - Coaching your team (building more leadership capacity) -...
Top Reason Why Strategies Fail – Inadequate Resources
Over the past 25 days, we’ve been discussing strategy. In our last post, we shared reviewing your strategy on a regular basis (we suggest monthly) is critical for successful execution. Mankins and Steele also talked about the strategy - execution gap and ways you...
A Monthly Review of Your Strategy Is Key For Execution
Over the past 24 days, we’ve been discussing strategy. In our last post, we shared how you can use a strategic principle to communicate your strategy. It turns out the regular communication of your strategy is a key component to the strategy actually getting...
How To Develop A Strategic Principle To Communicate Strategy
Over the past 23 days, we’ve been discussing strategy. In our last post, we shared how you can use a strategic principle to communicate your strategy. This concept was introduced by Gadiesh and Gilbert. We said a strategic principle was a “memorable and actionable...
Communicate Your Strategy With A Strategic Principle
Over the past 22 days, we’ve been discussing strategy. In our last post, we shared how just improving your operational effectiveness can be a viable strategy. Once those strategic decisions have been made, how do you get everyone moving in the same direction?...
Improving Your Operational Efficiency Is A Valid Strategy
Over the past 21 days, we’ve been discussing strategy. In our last post, we shared how sharing both your vision and strategy is key if you want employees to be engaged. We’ve said that strategy, at its core, involves choosing different activities or performing...
Share Your Vision And Strategy To Engage Employees
Over the past 20 days, we’ve been discussing strategy. In our last post, we shared how involving your employees in your strategic planning process has a positive effect on their engagement. Just having a strategy is just a starting point. As a leader, you must also...
Having Strategy Leads to More Engaged Employees
Over the past 19 days, we’ve been discussing various aspects of strategy. Do you know that having a strategic plan leads to happier, more engaged employees? This is a real problem since just 34% of employees in the U.S. are engaged, Gallup research shows. Unengaged...