Category: Strategy

How to Win Long-Term 

What is proactive, strategic thinking? It’s about long-term success. Winning, success, whatever you want to call it, can be defined however you want: the largest

Read Now

Responding

  One of the biggest improvement opportunities for busy professionals is responding rather than reacting.  The person at the top of the organizational chart got

Read Now

Anticipating 

Recently, at a church service, an altar server caused a short pause by not anticipating a routine task during the service. As a former altar

Read Now

Prepare in the Good Times 

Think back to March 2020. How many individuals and businesses wish they’d not spent that moderate-to-large amount on that discretionary purchase in February? How many

Read Now

Dashboards 

A critical tool to reduce reactive behavior as the owner or leader of an organization: data dashboards that provide glanceable information on the status and

Read Now

Leading Meetings 

I have written about effective meeting management several times on this blog before, but I wanted to focus a post on how to effectively control

Read Now

Three Key Questions 

Experts teach several models for analyzing the competitive environment and internal capabilities of companies. These are valuable tools, but they can sometimes overwhelm, and even

Read Now