by Robert Bradford | Jun 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Reading an article about Darwin this weekend, I couldn’t help but think that evolution and business strategy have a lot of interesting parrallels. One that struck me relates to a couple of fascinating stories – the first about the horrible rise of the...
by Robert Bradford | Jun 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
by: Robert Bradford, CEO, CSSP, Inc. One of the real upsides of a recession is the cleansing effect it has…I notice a high correlation between poor strategy and disastrous performance in recessions. That isn’t to say that good strategy makes you...
by Robert Bradford | Jun 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
by: Robert Bradford, CEO, CSSP, Inc. Thinking about the current recession, I couldn’t help but think back to recessions I’ve gone through in the past – and how clients succeeded (or didn’t) during those difficult times. Several important concepts come to mind,...
by Denise Harrison | Jun 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
By Denise Harrison, Vice President, Center for Simplified Strategic Planning, Inc Banks failing, real estate loans made to people who do not and did not have the means to repay them, institutions using derivatives without fully understanding the risk – what happened?...
by Tina | Jun 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
Even for the most raw and rapidly conceived start-up company, the entrepreneur and initial management team have some strategy in place – some reason to believe that they should begin conducting business. For more established businesses, strategy has been in place from...
by Robert Bradford | Sep 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
This article is the third in a series about simplifying strategic planning to make the process faster. The key idea is to focus only on the parts of the process that provide real value. While strategy itself is critical, not every part of the process is equally...
