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Are You Planning To Fail - Or Just Failing To Plan?
Every business owner plans to succeed, but many wind up succeeding by putting out fires every day. Stragic planning is all about preventing fires in the first place. It's not a difficult process, and the results are well worth the investment of time and energy.
Resolve to Follow the 5 Stages of Planning for a Prosperous 2010
With the challenges and uncertainties facing small business owners in 2010, a well-crafted plan is more important than ever. Many companies with 2009 plans that were “in my head” or “sketched on a napkin” aren’t making plans for 2010; they’re no longer in business. Unless your 2010 plans include becoming a statistic, you must resolve to commit the resources necessary to develop a high quality plan for 2010. Developing an actionable plan that increases your odds of success is as technically demanding as any of the products or services you offer to customers.
Is This a Solution to Help You Become More Strategic?
"Business changes come as waves gathering shape, gaining energy and momentum, then crash across the companies that find themselves in their path. Those companies that anticipate and respond quickly to these waves of change can often rise with the tide; those that don't are often crushed on impact." - Michael F. Corbett with Corbett & Associates, Ltd. This quote from Michael Corbett really hits home for most of us as we deal with different business changes each day. I know there are many days that I feel like the guy standing one step ahead of the wave ready to crash. The key is we need to stay one step ahead (more would be better) in order to succeed and thrive in the business world. We have to be ready to embrace change and always be charging forward as proactively as possible. In this article, I want to help you evaluate a spe
Part 2: Is This a Solution to Help You Become More Strategic?
Business changes come as waves gathering shape, gaining energy and momentum, then crash across the companies that find themselves in their path. Those companies that anticipate and respond quickly to these waves of change can often rise with the tide; those that don't are often crushed on impact." - Michael F. Corbett with Corbett & Associates, Ltd. In our Emerging Issues in HR article last month, I presented you with the steps involved in deciding whether or not outsourcing is a solution for your organization to consider: Step 1: Create a Team Step 2: Conduct a Process Review Step 3: Review Strategic Plan Step 4: Identify Core Areas Step 5: Decide What to Outsource If you moved to Step 5 and still felt outsourcing may be a solution for you, you then decided what you may want to outsource...

Effective Time Management Generates Profitable Business Leadership Results And Strategic Innovative Opportunities
A strategic way to boost the results of your business leadership activities, along with your business profits, productivity and growth is through understanding the "physics" behind effective time management practices. Because time, as it is in any profession, is a critical resource in making business leadership actions profitable, innovative and transformative...
Silence to the Fifth Power
You turn them off! And if by magic, you can think again, and envision again, and create again, and dialogue again, and feel a sense of newly regained energy, “again”. That is Silence to the Fifth Power.
Seven Team Development Ideas for Team Leaders
Team development by team leaders is one of those responsibilities that fits into the category of continuous improvement. It therefore takes effort and planning to implement it effectively. This article is therefore written for team leaders to assist and encourage them in their ongoing planning and practice of developing their team. This practice is a marathon and not a sprint, so the seven developmental areas discussed here should give enough content to help team leaders plan up to a year's worth of strategy.
Building Strategic versus Tactical Leaders
IQ is your intelligence-your ability to capture information and store it in your brain and then extract it when needed. But all of us have run in to people that are highly intelligent but that lack common sense. So if you are looking for a great leader what are the essential ingredients that make a great leader?

Realizing Your Entrepreneurial Vision
Question: Can you become a successful entrepreneur? Answer: Yes, but you can’t do it alone. Entrepreneurs begin by creating a vision. The vision states what your company does, why it is in business and what it will achieve. From this vision, a company strategy emerges. It describes the actions the company will take to make the vision a reality. Your company’s future pain and success is a function of 1) whether your vision serves the needs of the marketplace and 2) how successfully your company implements its strategy.

Impact and Influence: A Key Competency for Top Performers
Impact and influence is the ability to persuade or convince others to support an idea, agenda or direction. It involves taking a variety of actions to influence others including establishing credibility or using your communication skills to direct others towards your desired results.

Five Reasons Agency Compensation Should Not Be Relationship Based
Don't get me wrong, measuring and managing a high quality relationship is important between agencies and marketers. But at the ANA Marketing Financial Management Conference last week in Phoenix, Arizona, there was a presentation by Sarah Armstrong on Value Based Agency Compensation.
Start Being StrategicTo Be Successful In Business
In this article, I am going to turn the attention to you, the business owner, and examine why a strategic focus is essential in growing you business, and in helping you set yourself apart from the competition.

Think Time
How often do you take time to just sit and think? To close the door on all the noise; put on some music or sit in silence and just ponder those things that require your attention? My guess, if you're like most people, you don't really take a lot of time to think.
CFO vs. Controller: Understanding the Differences
There are two primary types of financial leadership within top organizations: the CFO and the Controller. Many growing organizations do not have a clear understanding of the two positions, often overlooking the value that a CFO could bring to their business. To determine what level of financial leadership an organization requires, a Controller and/or CFO, it is first important to decipher the differences between the two roles.

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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.

The Difference Between Strategic Tactical and Why Business Owners Need To Know The Difference According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Has anyone ever told you that you need to become more strategic and less tactical in your business? Do you know the differentce between strategic and tactical? Are you confused about what is strategic and what is tactical? Based upon observations of business owners and their management teams for the past three decades, I believe there are many confused, misinformed, and/or uneducated people on the differentiation of strategic and tactical. So, let your strategic thinking business coach offer some assistance to eliminate the confusion and correctly inform and educate the reader in this matter.

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.

How to Build Successful Strategic Alliances
First of all, what is a strategic alliance? 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. In another article I wrote entitled “Strategic Alliances And Their Powerful Benefits,” I listed twelve (12) clear and powerful benefits of strategic alliances. Now, in this article I suggest how to build successful strategic alliances. Here are the ten (10) suggested actions to take to build successful strategic alliances.
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.

A Lesson in the History of Strategic Planning
When today’s business leaders think of strategic planning they are likely think of the planned strategic and organizational actions and innovations that will be used to maintain and build competitive advantage. In fact, an entire industry is built around strategic planning services and consulting to support these efforts to build advantage over ones business competitors. But strategic planning wasn’t always thought of this way. So how much do you know about the history of strategic planning?

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