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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...
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...