Most of the OnStrategy Team lives in Nevada, so we know a thing or two about gambling (and sometimes you can get lucky!!). However, most leaders prefer to play it safe with the future of their companies. We suspect you feel the same way. …

Connecting the work of employees to a company’s overall strategic plan accomplishes a number of things. For starters it helps achieve the desired outcomes of the plan itself. Growth, profitability, new market penetration, recurring customers, you name it. But aligning people to company goals and allowing them to see how…

More often than not, life and day-to-day operations take over a well-intention strategic plan execution. If it is one more thing everyone has to do, the strategic plan beings to feel like a burden instead of being exciting. By embedding your strategic planning into daily operations, you begin to make…

Learn how a sustainable competitive advantage can take your strategic plan to the next level. What’s the number-one attribute Warren Buffet, arguably one of the most successful investors in the world, looks for in a company? “Sustainable competitive advantage,” he told an interviewer. If one of the most successful businessmen of today puts this at the top of his list, you should too. Not only…

What Are StrategySprints?

How well do you deal with change? No one is immune to the desire for things to stay the same- after all, life’s easier if you never have to grow or adapt. But the truth about life is that environments change, organizations change and people change. It is important to…

Has your team ever come up with an idea or a project that no one agreed would work, and yet you still went ahead with it? Even though teams are needed for managing projects too big for one person, and even though the adage “two heads are better than one”…

These days, things change fast. With an uneasy global economy, the world has become less stable, less predictable than it once was. New opportunities and threats raise their heads daily, and companies who can identify them and respond the quickest are reaping the benefits. Because of this, we’re seeing the…

The two words ‘strategic planning’ provoke reactions anywhere from sheer exuberance to ducking for cover. In many organizations, strategic planning has a bad reputation because it’s so easy to step into one of the many planning pitfalls. To start with, holding effective meetings is tough. Add to that a topic…