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3 Reasons Strategic Leaders Use Quick Wins to Drive Long-Term Performance

November 21, 2013

Quick wins seem like the antithesis of long-term performance. Yet strategic leaders realize that quick wins are in their arsenal of tactics, because it ...

How Much Does a Strategic Plan Really Cost You?

November 14, 2013

How much does a good strategic plan cost? How much is it worth? Is it an expense or an investment? How do you be ...

When Should Strategic Leaders Change Course?

November 14, 2013

For many business leaders, answering the question “When to Change Course” is one of the toughest. How long do you stay the course and ...

Four steps to improve the value of strategic planning implementation

November 7, 2013

Strategic planning implementation is known for being fraught with problems and achieving lower-than-desired results. Depending on what source you read, 70-90% of strategic plans ...

Strategic Planning Excellence: Defining the End Game

October 31, 2013

Like most things, strategic planning success varies wildly. Most of us have participated or even led the process but how well it has worked ...

The #1 Reason Strategic Execution Fails

October 24, 2013

When speaking with Vistage members about strategy, the most common complaint is the difficulty of effective implementation. In fact, depending on what report you ...

Culture is the new Competitive Advantage

October 17, 2013

Every company has a culture, just like every company sells something--a product or a service. However, just as in products, there is a wide ...

3 Steps to Improve the Odds of Making Good Decisions

October 10, 2013

Unlike internet surfing at work, gambling at work is a vice that has been around for many many years. Even with modern day management ...

Strategic Planning Tip: How do you measure success?

October 3, 2013

If you are like most business leaders, you are focused on the dollars and cents. More and more CEO's get paid based on how ...