by Dana Baldwin | Aug 28, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By M. Dana Baldwin The basics of Strategic Planning can be misunderstood by those who need to determine what they are and how they apply to the overall development of your strategic plans. On one hand, some teams will overlook the importance of carefully defining the...
by Robert Bradford | Aug 21, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford, President and CEO Recently, I discussed a simple test to tell whether an objective you set for your organization is truly strategic, and highlighted a common type of non-strategic objective, the incremental objective. Today, I’d like to cover a...
by Robert Bradford | Aug 14, 2026 | Strategic Planning
One of the issues that comes up in the second session of the Simplified Strategic Planning process is whether your objectives are “strategic enough”. Strictly speaking, objectives are only strategic if they have a significant impact on what you sell, how you sell it,...
by Dana Baldwin | Aug 7, 2026 | Strategic Planning, Strategy Implementation
By Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Why do so many smaller companies have difficulty getting started with strategic planning? Over 90% of Fortune 500 companies do some form of strategic planning, but only about 25% of small companies do formal strategic planning....
by Dana Baldwin | Jul 17, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By M. Dana Baldwin What are the characteristics of a good leader? While there are many fine attributes that a leader should have and exhibit, what leadership comes down to is the ability to interact and lead people to accomplish tasks which lead to the success of the...
by Robert Bradford | Jul 10, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford Strategic planning is the process of setting an organization’s course to optimize its future results. We define anything that revolves around one of three questions as strategic: What do we do? For whom do we do it? How do we beat or avoid...
