This year marks our 75th Anniversary. To celebrate, we’re publishing 75 stories about members of our community. Lori Cross serves as a CPED instructor and has taught a variety of topics for the past thirteen …
Strategy Formulation & Execution
How Flexible is Your Business Strategy?
By: Harvey Bergholz Do you know what these four companies have in common? US Air Dexter Shoes The Buffalo News World Book Encyclopedia Together, over a decade’s time, they generated billions of dollars’ worth of …
4 Ways to Keep Strategic Planning Focused
By: Harvey Bergholz Imagine you’ve been tagged with facilitating a business strategy workgroup. Having participated in similar planning exercises before, you know the traps that can keep the group from achieving high-value outcomes. Often, people …
Is it Time to Review Your Organization’s Design?
By: Jeff Chan Have you heard the saying, “Every organization is perfectly designed to get the results it gets”? Unfortunately, the design is usually not the product of an intentional and deliberate process. Instead, organizations …
A Framework for Strategic Growth: Deliberations and Decisions
By: Harvey Bergholz A wonderful executive I worked with for years was fond of saying to the senior team at each year’s strategy review meeting, “You can’t stand still on a bicycle. It’s either forward …
4 Strategic Capabilities Needed in Leaders
By: Steve King One of the most common questions we hear from clients is: “How can I create leaders who have strategic capabilities?” Organizations need leaders who can develop and implement strategies, so it’s understandable …