by Dana Baldwin | Jun 5, 2015 | Strategic Planning, Uncategorized
By M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Note: This article was previously published in Compass Points March 2006. Why is focus so important to success in our businesses? We’ve all heard of the person who wanted to clean off his desk, and couldn’t imagine why...
by Robert Bradford | May 29, 2015 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford, President and CEO of Center for Simplified Strategic Planning We get questions about how to adapt our Simplified Strategic Planning model to smaller companies. The model was initially developed for companies with 50-500 employees, but has been...
by Tom Ambler | May 22, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Thomas E. Ambler, Senior Consultant, CSSP, Inc. Recruiting disciplined people requires a well-tuned filtering process that determines if there is a fit of the candidate’s skill sets and passions with the job requirements of the organization and determines...
by Tom Ambler | May 8, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Thomas E. Ambler, Senior Consultant, CSSP, Inc. In his outstanding book about great organizations, Good To Great, Jim Collins concludes, “Sustained great results depend upon building a culture full of self-disciplined people who take disciplined action,...
by Denise Harrison | May 1, 2015 | Strategic Planning
By Denise Harrison, Senior Consultant How can we better deal with uncertainty when we develop our strategic plan? Many strategic planning teams struggle with this issue. While it is important to understand what you know as facts and what your assumptions for the...
by Robert Bradford | Apr 24, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Continuing the discussion we started in the prior posts, the third main reason why you may be disappointed in your Balanced Scorecard program is fundamental to the limitations of the scorecard itself. III. Your Balanced Scorecard isn’t driving action This...
