Margaret Reynolds Dear Friends, The last ten years has been an amazing journey. Much has been accomplished and much has been learned. The most important thing is that I have had the privilege of meeting you, working with you and learning from you. It has been a deep honor and I hope the journey continues to lead …
Fourth quarter is known for lots of things–year end reports, spending the last of this year’s budget, setting next years budget and oh, yes, time to update or create the strategic plan. In a recent survey you told me that you do a strategic plan when things aren’t going well. You call in the calvary when you …
Some business leaders believe they don’t need a strategic growth plan. Others wouldn’t go a day without one. Who is right? The answer is, it depends. I can think of a few circumstances where a leader may choose not to do a plan. Most experts, not just me, will tell you that leading without a …
Fall is the time many people think about creating a strategic plan or reviewing the one they have in place. Here are the top 5 mistakes commonly made. Forewarned is forearmed! 1. The facts: A plan can only be as good as the input that goes into it. Since planning requires corraling the future, by …
Recently I have come across two very intersting lists—the top 10 growth industries and the 10 fastest declining industries. Being in a growth industry is usually a good thing! You get tail winds. Being in a declining industry–well your challenge is to avoid being the buggy whip. Most of us are somewhere in the middle …
It is that time of year again. In Kansas City, the week of my birthday (9/7) is also the week of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus. I can remember years where my children and I “celebrated” my birthday at the circus, watching amazing feats and smelling the elephants (the elephants are amazingly large as is …
PETE WILSONCross Point ChurchInterview with Pete Wilson, Pastor of Cross Point Church Crosspoint Church is a “high performance organization”. There is an energy that makes people want to understand what is going on here and it is growing so fast with an incredible outreach program. I am interested in learning how you lead to accomplish …
Many of you know that while I help companies do strategic planning, I really don’t like to use the term, “strategic planning”. Seems odd, doesn’t it? The reason is that far too many people are in the strategic planning business and, in my humble opinion, it is confused with meeting facilitation. Let me explain. It helps …
I once heard someone say that the sign of a great leader isn’t what they accomplish when in charge, but the legacy that they leave when they are not. Given that definition, Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln go down as great leaders–not for how much they were appreciated in office but the positive stamp they …
What products and services have revolutionalized your life? In my lifetime, there have been many. Wonder how they came about? It required asking the right questions and really listening for the answer. In today’s pressured economic environment it is really tempting to ask, “How can we cut back?”, “How can we do this for less money/time?”. …
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