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Grow your payoff by investing more in the highest leverage leadership activity.

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Rick Knowlan

What is the highest leverage leadership activity? Since we began consulting on strategic planning in 1989, we’ve been strong advocates of advance preparation for planning sessions.  When client teams short-change advance preparation, it takes longer to create plans.  Perhaps worse, … Continue reading →

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Is Creative Thinking An Oxymoron in Your Strategic Planning?

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Rick Knowlan

Why strategic thinking stops during strategic planning In his book, “The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning”, Henry Mintzberg noted that strategic thinking occurs more or less continuously in most organizations. Paradoxically, it seems to stop only during strategic planning … Continue reading →

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20 Tips for Successful Strategy Implementation: Part IV – Evaluation and Adjustment

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Rick Knowlan

Phase IV Evaluation and Adjustment Ongoing strategic success requires vigilant management—continually tweaking the strategy, implementing changes quickly and effectively, and keeping the strategy fresh and alive. A fast, flawless implementation may yield better results than a “brilliant” strategy poorly implemented. … Continue reading →

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Still using SWOT lists? Maybe your planning process is a weakness.

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Rick Knowlan

Are you still kicking off strategic planning with a SWOT analysis? If you are, maybe you should list “outdated and potentially dangerous strategic planning process” as your first weakness! Here’s why. The Weaknesses on your SWOT list may be worse … Continue reading →

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Part 2 – When Creating Strategy, Speed Kills

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Rick Knowlan

In the first post of this series, I wrote about how trying to plan too hastily kills the quality of a new strategy. In this post, I’ll write about how short-changing implementation planning risks squandering the advantages that come from … Continue reading →

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