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Business strategies in difficult times
The only thing in life that stays unchanged is change... This is especially true in business today. The business milieu around the globe has become significantly more complex than it was a hundred years ago. To survive, grow and succeed, there are many more internal and external pitfalls (risks) a business owner has to deal with today.

High Impact Communication: Tips to Fast Track Your Career
This article describes tips that were presented in a business association's Strategic Solutions Workshop. It provides Three Quick tips, Three Career Essentials, Mandatory Communitcation Skills, and Action Plans to Fast Track a Career
Let's Put the B.S. Aside . . . For Good
In the past few months, how many times have you encountered one or all of these statements, either from sales people, marketing messages or promotions?

MBAs in the spotlight
With a raft of reborn and innovative MBAs now on offer, the crowning glory of post-grad qualifications is regaining lost ground. Human Capital looks at the latest trends.

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The Value and Benefits of Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinking plays an enormous role in professional work and is part of the branding of my multi-disciplinary consultancy. ”A Strategic Thinking Consultancy” appears directly underneath the logo for The Renaissance Group ™ and my newsletter name is “Glenn’s Guiding Lines Thoughts From Your Strategic Thinking Coach.” It is a reality in business today that strategic thinking and the execution of strategic planning are some of the most difficult tasks for business leaders. Although it is easier to be tactical or task oriented, the business leader must be strategic or risk becoming very shortsighted. Therefore a clear understanding of the value and the benefits of strategic thinking are very important. Here are lists of my thoughts on the value and the benefit of strategic thinking.

“Your Strategic Thinking Coach’s List of Ten Key Components of Effective Strategic Alliances”
A strategic alliance is a partnership, a collaborative agreement and/or a relationship between two or more companies or organizations formed to pursue a set of agreed upon goals while remaining independent companies or organizations. Strategic alliances exist in a variety of shapes and sizes and include a wide range of scopes of cooperation levels. Strategic alliances usually are most effective when the entities involved have complementary strengths. What makes a strategic alliance effective? What are the key components of effective strategic alliances? Your Strategic Thinking Coach researched this and came up with ten (10) key components of effective strategic alliances. Here is my list of ten (10) key components of an effective strategic alliance.
“The Top Ten Reasons Strategic Planning Meetings Fail, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach”
Strategic planning is an awesome and powerful process that sometimes gets a bad rap because of some bad experiences people have had when engaging in some form of strategic planning meetings. Many times the combination of personal agendas, absence of open minds, and preconceived judgments about the strategic planning process can turn strategic planning meetings into real disasters. And frankly, there are many reasons why so many strategic planning meetings are unsuccessful. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach has developed a list of the top 10 reasons why strategic planning meetings fail. And the Top 10 Reasons are:
Major Characteristics of A Strategic Thinker, According To Your Strategic Thinking Coach
Let’s begin with a definition of strategic thinking so we are all on the same page before reading the article. Strategic thinking is the way people think about, assess, view and create the future for themselves and others. It is much more than responding and reacting to both day-to-day and long-term problems, opportunities and new realities. It is proactive, not reactive and focuses on creating a better future and adding value. Strategic thinking always involves change and imagining the results we can achieve in the future. So what makes a strategic thinker? What are some of the major characteristics of a strategic thinker? Here are eight (8) major characteristics of strategic thinkers from my perspective as a strategic thinking business coach.

“Ten More Benefits From Strategic Planning, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach Ten More Benefits From Strategic Planning, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach”
Strategy is about making choices and your strategic thinking business coach always wants to guide you in the making of the most educated, informed and strategic choices in your business. Today’s businesses need a process to guide them in successfully developing and implementing strategies for growth and solutions to business issues, needs and problems. Strategic planning is the process that all businesses need. Strategic planning will save you time, get you and your management team focused, and provide a road map to reach your business and personal visions. In any business activity, one looks for benefits. This is especially true in the case of strategic planning. Here are ten (10) more benefits from strategic planning, according to your strategic thinking business coach.

A Strategic Approach To Planning For A New Business Year – Ask Your Clients Questions
A new business year has begun and hopefully your strategic thinking and planning has been underway for some time. A strategic thinking business coach suggests that asking clients some probing questions will be very beneficial in your planning efforts for the new business year. The strategy of asking these questions is to gain insight for developing the best solutions for your clients’ problems. Asking questions will help you gain needed information from your clients; build rapport with your clients; increase the clients’ comfort level; understand the clients’ needs; and discover the clients’ concerns, frustrations and fears. What are some examples of questions you could ask your clients? Your strategic thinking business coach suggests the following:

Ten Major Fears That Scare Small Businesses Away From Strategic Planning
An often offered comment to me when I speak about strategic planning to small business owners and managers is that their company or organization is too small for strategic planning. Or they will offer any number of other excuses why they do not use strategic planning for their business. In my opinion, this is a sad commentary on the thinking of these small business people. They do not realize or comprehend that their business or organization is on a pathway to the business graveyard without a strategic plan. Well, I really believe if the truth were told, the real reason they do not do strategic planning is related more to fear than anything else. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers the following ten major fears that drive small businesses away from strategic planning.
Ten Strategic Actions For Commercially Marketing New Technology
The development of successful strategic marketing programs to commercially market new technology is a challenge. It requires the incorporation of good strategic thinking and Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers ten (10) strategic actions for you to take to develop a successful strategic marketing program for the commercial marketing of your new technology.

Critical Skills Needed To Be A Strategic Thinker, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Strategic thinking is a process that defines the manner in which people think about, assess, view, and create the future for themselves and others. Strategic thinking is an extremely effective and valuable tool. One can apply strategic thinking to arrive at decisions that can be related to your work or personal life. Strategic thinking involves developing an entire set of critical skills. What are those critical skills? Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers the following list of critical skills that the best strategic thinkers possess and use every day.

Managing smart or fire-fighting?
So many managers at all levels are principally fire-fighting and simply not planning, strategic and thinking deeply enough to provide the best solutions for their own productivity and for the sustainability of their organizations.
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