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Time to Update Your Strategic Plan
Feeling caught in a no win situation? Don't feel bad, no one anticipated the economic trauma we've recently gone through. The economy has changed, people aren't buying, you have opportunity but can't get credit to take advantage of it, and your existing client base is slowly melting away into retirement, bankruptcy or sale. If you’re in react mode, you'll never get ahead of the changes taking place - things are moving too fast. It's time to re-evaluate your opportunities and update your strategic plan.

Are You Using a Chess or Checkers Small Business Marketing Strategy
Until the day I learned to play chess I loved playing checkers. Both games require a strategy that maximizes a player’s ability to capture his opponents pieces without first losing his own. Checkers was fun. But the complexities of chess lead to more satisfying victories and defeats.

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Winning New Clients: Brag to the Rest of the Enterprise
Since you have access to the many people you have had discussions with and know where each sits on the company “chess board”, you have permission to go back and update them on the progress that is being made on the pilot. Notice that all the development time you’ve invested with people across all lines of business now has the potential to produce results. Unlike a sales optic, which often assumes that a “no” now means a definite “no”, a development focus assumes that circumstances are always in flux.
Are You Using a Chess or Checkers Small Business Marketing Strategy
Until the day I learned to play chess I loved playing checkers. Both games require a strategy that maximizes a player’s ability to capture his opponents pieces without first losing his own. Checkers was fun. But the complexities of chess lead to more satisfying victories and defeats.
10 Leadership Lessons from the Tour de France
As many readers will know, I am passionate about cycling. I love the complex interplay of personal discipline with teamwork. I love the combination of brutal effort and chess like strategy. I love the epic scenery and the cool gadgets - I love it all. This week the 2009 Tour de France enters it’s final, decisive week. So in a blatant bid to get more people interested in cycling - here are my 10 leadership lessons from the Tour...
9th of the Top 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions
#9 - STRATEGY Strategy comes in several forms and is required in different dosages depending on the position. For example, a line level sales manager may be more concerned with call strategy while a Worldwide VP Sales may be more concerned with market strategy. At the VP level, strategy is far more important than tactics while at the sales manager level, tactics are more important than strategy.
Growing up, Our Positive Attitude Thought Process Changes
Remember when you were young, you used to run around at the park, you used always to go outside and play with your friends. Play ball, be a cheerleader, be on the chess club at school, do you remember those days? What happened, why do we become such a bore when we become adults? Why is it that we don’t experienced life anymore like we used to? Below are some characteristics of how our positive attitude though process changes.
How to Align your Corporate Strategy
A recent article covered the symptoms of corporate strategy misalignment and 3 common causes of strategy misalignment. Take a look back at those articles to understand what happens when corporate strategy becomes misaligned and what causes it to go out of whack in the first place. When corporate strategy is aligned throughout the entire organization, operational initiatives are working in sync with strategic goals and desired outcomes are much more likely to result. Thus, understanding corporate strategy misalignment is critical for any business leader and knowing how to correct a misalignment is essential.
3 Common Causes of Corporate Strategy Misalignment
A recent artcile on corporate strategy covered the symptoms of corporate strategy misalignment. As discussed, a properly aligned corporate strategy will align strategic goals with the operations and execution tactics necessary to fulfill the organization’s desired outcomes. With a well-aligned corporate strategy, the entire organization – both internally and externally – will move in the same clearly-defined direction. Left to its own devices, a strategy that is misaligned will result in operational initiatives that are out of sync with strategic goals, missions that drift operationally off course, and chaos that compounds into serious consequences. Now it’s time to consider the causes of corporate strategy misalignment.
3 Entrepreneur Coaching Strategies
Did you ever learn to play chess? Not the most popular game for this century when we move at the speed of light. However, it is a vital game for anyone who runs a business. Whether you formally know where to position a knight or a pawn on a board, you do this with employees and customers all the time.
Can We Remove Risk From Our Strategy?
If you could, wouldn’t you choose to test your organization’s strategy before gambling your business and your career on the assumption that the strategy is right? This article contains a short list of tactics to help remove some of the risk from your strategy.
Five Steps to Good Strategy
Possibly more organizations fail because of bad strategy than those who fail because of no strategy. Bad strategy happens all the time to every organization and if left to its own means can destroy an organization. Bad strategy can be characterized by executives failing to face real problems or simply by lack of clarity. Learn how to craft good strategy.

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