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Are Your People Excited About the Future of Your Organization?
Strategic Planning is not easy. But all of the effort, time and resources you put in to its creation can go right in to the junk pile if you do
Do You Have Someone Who Actually Owns the Plan?
Over the summer, I have been reviewing some of the Clear Signals That Your Strategic Plan Is Going to Fail from a book I recently published with Mona Mitchell called
Does Your Strategic Plan Extend Out Too Far?
Most organizations are still planning too far out. In this day and age, realistically, how can we? With so many changes to our markets, politics and competitive playing field, we
Do You Know What Strategy Success Mean?
The plan looks good and you seem to have all the pieces in place, but when asked, no one seems to know what success will actually look or sound and
Does Your Strategic Plan have a Scorecard?
Happy Summer, 2019! In this first week of July, I continue my summer series on the seven Clear Signals That Your Strategic Plan Is Going to Fail and what you
Clear Signals That Your Strategic Plan Is Going to Fail
You have created a strong team, held a very productive, off-site strategic planning session, documented all the ideas and plans, published the official “Strategic Plan” and told everyone about it
An Historic Day for Canada
The Toronto Raptors have just won the 2019 NBA Championship and today (June 17, 2019) ‘we’ celebrated. The ‘we’ is Canada. They really are Canada’s team. People flooded into downtown
Project Managers Need to Step It Up
I struggled with the title of this week’s post. The title I chose could just as easily be: So, What Else Do You Have? Good Project Managers are a Dime
Leaders Build Relationships
“…astute leaders tune in to others’ feelings and predispositions, and acknowledge different opinions from a variety of sources. Now (when you may not necessarily need it) is the time to
The Key to Strategic Planning is Execution Planning
Originally posted June 10, 2015 “(Strategy) execution is the great unaddressed issue in the business world today. Its absence is the single biggest obstacle to success and the cause of
Great Leaders Build Great Leaders
…when measuring great leadership, the best of the best, to me, are the ones who are building great leaders in their path.
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Don’t Burn That Bridge!
How do you blow up a bridge in under 10 seconds? You let your emotions get the best of you. It is so easy. You get really upset and steam
What is Your First Step After the Strategic Plan is Published?
Every great organization conducts a strategic planning session, of some sort, every few years, which produces a strategic plan that, in the majority of cases, goes no where. Forbes.com suggests
They Should Have Called it the PLI!
Every once in a while, I get the urge to connect with the Project Management Institute (PMI) Board of Directors to suggest a name change. Project Leadership Institute (PLI) In
Nice Sells
One of my Linkedin contacts, Michelle Krupa, posted an article from the web site Makeit.com, a portal from CNBC. The headline read: “Mark Cuban: ‘One of the most underrated skills
Culture Drives Strategy – Not the Other Way Around
“Culture is the often-overlooked foundation of an organization. It determines how the group retains talent, how it develops and releases new products and whether it meets targets. It affects how
You Need a Sound Strategic Plan to be Able to Execute Well
Five Key Elements to Building a Strong Strategic Plan Company X gets it now! They realize how important it is to focus on the execution of the plan as much
Disengagement – Strike at the Roots
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of disengagement to each one who is striking at the root.” Today I want to highlight the comment of one of my
Do You Have a Strategy Stress Test (SST)
I am a serial entrepreneur and a dreamer. I come up with new ideas all the time, which comes with good news and bad news. The good news is that
5 Things a Leader Should Do to Set a Good Example
Originally posted August, 2015 I was recently listening to a group of teenagers talk about their summer jobs and most of the talk was a rant about the leadership style
Working with a Disengaged Team
I have been watching a friend struggle recently as she tries to manage a team of people who were not engaged. Read… ‘they really didn’t care’. The result is demoralizing
Every Strategic Plan Needs a Solid Core
I have a friend who loves to innovate. He loves to create new companies, products or services but he isn’t very successful. Whenever you get him talking about the next
Strategize with an Agile Mindset
This week’s post is an interview with Dan Watt, Sr. Director, Large Program Enablement at RBC. Dan is a real visionary and has always had a very unique perspective on
Please Stop Using the Town Hall Meeting!
I was watching the news last week that featured clips of the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, ‘performing’ at a series of Town Hall meetings he was conducting across
Do You Know Your Audience?
Whether you are selling to a client, trying to influence an internal decision, creating a business case or convincing a team of stakeholders that your project needs more time or
Do Your People Consider You to be Inspiring?
(This blog is an update on the first version published in 2014) I have been working through an article from Forbes.com this summer that listed the top 10 qualities that
Do you have a plan for 2019?
As I sit here during the first week of January, I can’t stop thinking about the exciting year ahead. I have some new adventures planned that will make this a
“You don’t lose when you lose. You lose when you quit.”
It is often easier, quicker and less painful to quit.
Plan Your Strategy in Sprints
As I transition my career these days to the strategy execution space, I’m amazed at how often I’ve run into organizations of all shapes and sizes who don’t have a