by Robert Bradford | Nov 28, 2020 | Strategic Thinking
If you’re familiar with Google, you may have heard of the 20% rule they’ve followed since their early days as a startup. The simple rule says that every key employee needs to spend 20% of their time on projects that have no immediately visible payback for the...
by Robert Bradford | Oct 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week, I reviewed the pros and cons of our new monthly schedule for strategic planning. If you’ve been using Simplified Strategic Planning, you might find the new strategic planning schedule useful. Month 1 – Situation Analysis In the first meeting, as with our...
by Robert Bradford | Oct 11, 2020 | Scenario planning
Scenario planning can be a very important part of your strategic plan. One question that sometimes comes up is should I use a single scenario or multiple scenarios? Another question is with more than one, how do you choose what the scenarios are? Should you use more...
by Robert Bradford | Sep 13, 2020 | Strategic Thinking, Uncategorized
You’ve seen it happen, perhaps dozens of times: A company makes some choice that looks good on paper, but leads to major strategic problems. No one is immune to this problem, because good strategic thinking is hard. Why is this? And how can we make strategic...
by Robert Bradford | Sep 6, 2020 | Strategic Planning during the COVID-19 pandemic
With current concerns about safety and travel, it’s natural that many people will be considering doing virtual strategic planning. Making more of your work virtual is one of the big changes many of us are making to be more competitive. Obviously, virtual meetings have...
