Leading Your Company Through Strategic Planning

The notion of a serious planning effort means different things to different people. Does “strategic planning” conjure up the notion of military battle plans, mountaintop retreats, huge corporations or expensive consultants? How about a 2-day meeting with your top leaders, with good preparation and a strong commitment to fix what’s broken and come up with two or three ideas that will launch the company toward a “BHAG” (big hairy audacious goal)?

There are three essentials to getting your first (or renewed) strategic planning project started: get the leaders involved; create a rigorous process to explore new initiatives; execute the initiatives by building them into the way you do business.

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