People lie once every ten minutes. What is this costing your company?
It has been said that we live in a culture of lies—white lies, exaggerations, misrepresentations and outright deceptions. In fact, Robert Fieldman has recently published a book that demonstrates that the most popular people are the ones who lie most often. Plus before people know each [...]
What’s replacing traditional strategic planning?
Why does traditional strategic planning generate over 50% failure rate? Learn what you can do set your team up for a higher percentage of successes. Learn why traditional methods can’t address the root causes and what can. Watch this six-minute video.
Dynamic platform vs. traditional business strategy
Our dynamic platform harmonizes your leadership team around a clear vision in one day and then builds momentum long-term, ensuring that vision becomes a reality. It could be called a "Strategy Platform". But let’s not. Our approach is so radically different from the disappointing image “strategy” can summon in the minds [...]
What does the empowered buyer demand?
What’s being demanded by the empowered buyer? It’s good to take a look at this shift in the buyer’s thinking. There are statistics to confirm it, in case you have doubts. The research company GlobeScan annually surveys a thousand top thought leaders, as well as [...]
A short history of why we need to know how we are unique as an organization.
It’s generally understood that brand, as the term is now used, began in the twentieth century. Linguistically it has a long history, but as it applies to the stakeholder’s image of a business, it has a fairly short one. All its diverse origins and evolutions could [...]
Why do so many business initiatives fail?
According to executives, nearly half of all strategic initiatives fail. Various studies conducted since 1995 consistently show executives will admit their strategic objectives have failed on some level almost half the time. I am not surprised by the failure rate, but I am thrilled by the [...]