Category: Strategic Planning

How the Slingshot Strategy Works to Launch Products or Services

How the Slingshot Strategy Works to Launch Products or Services

The Slingshot Strategy is a proven, step-by-step strategic planning process to launch your business and brand forward. It can feel risky or counterintuitive to pause for a moment; to plan; to think; to build up the inertia you need to launch forward. But a sound Slingshot Strategy, even while pulling back initially, creates the forward momentum you need.
Build Your Strategy from Where You Are

Build Your Strategy from Where You Are

You can’t build your strategy unless you know where you are now. An effective way to establish where you are is by assessing your brand positioning. This creates a baseline.
Strategic Clarity and Why You Can’t Grow Without It

Strategic Clarity and Why You Can’t Grow Without It

Without an effective strategy, you can feel lost. Achieving Strategic Clarity is the process of clearly articulating your brand strategy and positioning so everyone gets it, inside and out. Here's how.
3 HR Challenges that Derail Every Strategic Plan

3 HR Challenges that Derail Every Strategic Plan

People are the achilles heel of strategic planning. Your best laid plans can be derailed by you and your team. Discover the 3 HR issues that derail every strategic plan.
Homeostasis Inhibits Your Company’s Ability to Grow

Homeostasis Inhibits Your Company’s Ability to Grow

Homeostasis is a good thing, unless you want to make a change. Growth strategies are often derailed by an organization’s unstated desire to maintain equilibrium.
Rethinking Strategic Planning: Is Your Strategy Really a Strategy?

Rethinking Strategic Planning: Is Your Strategy Really a Strategy?

Goals, Actions, and Priorities are not strategies. They may help inform the creation of a strategy, but they’re not your strategy. Strategy is the process of how you will move your organization from Point A to B.
Bridging the Strategy Gap

Bridging the Strategy Gap

Your company doesn’t have the knowledge, skills and processes it needs to achieve its strategic plan. This is your strategic gap. Build a capabilities roadmap to achieve your strategic objectives. Here's how.
What Do You Want?

What Do You Want?

Creating a good strategy doesn't have to be complicated. Your strategy starts with one deceptively simple question, "What do you want?"
Three Levers: Focus Your Strategy on Three Priorities

Three Levers: Focus Your Strategy on Three Priorities

A daunting list of priorities in your strategic plan is not only distracting, it slows revenue growth. Drive growth with three priorities.
Three Questions to Transform Your Business

Three Questions to Transform Your Business

General Stanley McChrystal said, "You're not going to come up with a hundred year plan, a fifty year, or even a five year plan. You're going to come up with general directions and frameworks, and you better learn everyday. Because that's the world we're in now." Your ability to adapt and transform your business may be your greatest competitive strength.
Find Your Best Ideas In Nature

Find Your Best Ideas In Nature

Great ideas aren't found in a boardroom. If you're looking for a breakthrough idea get into nature. Get your team away from their desks and routines, and go find a place that feeds their creativity.
Timing Is Everything: Dust Off Old Strategies

Timing Is Everything: Dust Off Old Strategies

A prior failure doesn't mean the idea lacks merit. Timing is everything. Don't let a prior failure hold you back from dusting off and trying the strategy again.

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