by Robert Bradford | Jun 27, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford, CEO of the Center for Simplified Strategic Planning, Inc. Once you have identified your reasons for making an acquisition and the specific enhancements you are seeking to your strategic competencies, your first stage of acquisition screening...
by Tina | Jun 27, 2026 | Strategic Planning
As CEO you should strive to maintain a balance in your meeting participation. On the one hand, it is important for you to be willing to “sit on your hands” and let the opinions and positions of other team members flow freely and uninhibited.Diverse...
by Robert Bradford | Jun 27, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford, CEO of the Center for Simplified Strategic Planning, Inc. Many of our clients have found themselves considering acquisitions in this time of uncertainty. In this coming series of articles, we will discuss the process of acquisition screening and...
by Robert Bradford | May 28, 2024 | Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking
It’s not unusual, in strategic planning, to hear a team member say an issue is “just an operational issue”. In many cases, this may be correct – lots of operational issues don’t belong in your strategy discussions. In other cases, how your operation works can be...
by Robert Bradford | Feb 28, 2024 | Making predictions, Strategic Planning
In my last two posts, I discussed two of the three things that people get wrong in strategic planning: information and buy-in. Today, I’ll be discussing the third thing: sources and estimates. Data Sources As I mentioned in a previous post, people tend to want to...
by Robert Bradford | Oct 10, 2023 | Strategic Planning
Sometimes it seems there are just two views of strategic planning: it’s either a one or two-day retreat, or it’s an all-consuming, constant exercise. The “strategy light” version – a one or two-day retreat, seems super practical, while the “heavy strategy” version –...
