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Use Your Fires To Determine Your Strategy
Over the past 18 days, we’ve been discussing strategy: In our last blog post, we shared that a SWOT analysis was one way to get your team aligned around what your company should be focused on in the new year. We said that you could use the “weaknesses” part of the...
A SWOT Analysis Can Help Determine Your Strategic Moves
Over the past 17 days, we’ve been discussing strategy: We defined strategy as choosing to do activities that your rivals are not doing to get a competitive advantage. Not just any activities will do. Choose activities that you believe will add greater value to your...
Build Your Strategy Around What Is NOT Working
Over the past 16 days, we’ve been talking about strategy. If you’ve missed any of these posts, you can go here and start digging in. The goal of these posts has been to show the importance of having a strategy and how the right strategy allows your business to win in...
Having A Strategy Will Reduce Your Stress
This is my simplest and shortest post! In our last post, we talked about the importance of having a cash flow strategy. We said that at a fundamental level a business exists to: Make a profit Generate cash Achieve the mission of the business If you are stressed about...
Do You Have A Cash Flow Strategy?
We are halfway through our “30 days of Strategy”. The goal of these posts has been to help small business owners understand strategy at a basic level, so they can drive great results: More Profit Improved cash flow (more money in the bank over time) Greater...
How Do You Track The Execution of Your Strategy?
Over the past 13 days, we've been talking about strategy. Here are a few highlights from previous posts: You Have Business Goals, But Do You Have a Strategy? Is Vision Different from Strategy? How Do You Know If Your Strategy Is Successful? In our last post, we laid...
Not Able To Execute? You May Not Have The Right People Strategy
In the last several posts we’ve been talking about how a business strategy is a group of decisions which are linked together to drive the top three reasons why a business exists: To generate a profit To generate cash To accomplish your mission In the last post, we...
Not Enough Revenue? Your Processes Could Be The Problem
In the last blog post, we showed that linking your strategic moves together shows your team HOW you will generate more profit, greater cash flow, and ultimately achieve your mission. This linking encapsulates your strategic hypothesis - “if we take these specific...
Why You Must Link Your Strategic Moves Together
In our last blog post, we discussed how to determine if your strategy is working and linked strategy to the main goals of any business: To generate a profit To generate cash To accomplish your mission Your strategic moves should be linked to those top three goals. We...
How Do You Know If Your Strategy Is Successful?
In the last several posts we have been discussing strategy. We used Michael Porter’s definition of strategy: “Strategy is choosing to perform activities differently than rivals do.” A strategy is not just a list of goals. Like playing chess, each move is made...