Growing Pains: Be Prepared You may not equate strategy and growth with climbing a mountain, but there are certainly parallels and lessons to be learned from both, as the same questions can apply to businesses facing growing pains or to climbers looking to ascend mountain peaks. Both climbers and businesses face what seem like [...]
The Three D's of Strategic Planning As Benjamin Franklin famously said, ‘if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.’ An effective business strategy should clearly identify where your business is headed and create cohesion within an organization to achieve the target goals. It should not only define the destination but also set [...]
Don’t Let Your Past Mistakes Haunt You Halloween is upon us, and with it the usual ghosts, goblins and hauntings. Most of us enjoy a good scare once in awhile, especially in the name of Halloween fun. However, when it comes to your business, a real scare doesn’t feel so much thrilling as it [...]
Spotlight on Strategy: What Your Business Can Learn from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Chances are, when you hear the words “ice bucket challenge” the first thing that comes to mind is ALS. ALS, commonly referred to as Lou Gherig’s disease, affects the central nervous system and causes dysfunction in muscle movement. It’s chronic [...]
The Core of Strategy When we think of the core of an item we think of something that acts as a support upon which everything else can build and evolve. An apple’s core, for example, holds an apple together and provides seeds for future growth. The core of the earth supports the rocks above [...]
How to Harmonize Your Strategy Strategic planning is essential when it comes to achieving success and efficiency within an organization. However, it is often difficult to ensure that implemented plans reach all areas within the company, resulting in poor understanding and no real idea of how to visualize the plan from those actually in [...]
If Sun Tzu Had Been CEO If Sun Tzu had been a CEO, would he have applied the same tactics to his business that he did his armies? Many people have thought so – taking the timeless words of wisdom regarding warfare and applying them to modern business philosophy. As Rick Wartzman, executive director [...]
The Right Strategy for your Business Structure Why do we build? As humans, we plan, create, and build to push the limits of what is possible. A great building structure requires a solid foundation upon which to build, as a solid foundation acts as the keystone to any future success. Not surprisingly, building a [...]
Why ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ Is A Strategic Fail The idea of ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ isn’t just about tracking the failures and successes of your neighbors. The same line of thinking permeates the business world, often to its detriment. Everywhere companies turn, the mantra is always about how to ‘keep up [...]
Battlefield Beliefs Lead to Dead-End Strategies: Why Your Strategy Will Fail Without a Collaborative Approach The word “strategy” is synonymous with the idea of war. With its origins in Greek military terminology, the term conjures up the image of a general devising a battle plan. As StrategyBlocks highlighted in our recent Minutehack article, those who think of corporate strategy or [...]
