Strategic planning. Those two words receive forced association. I would like to introduce the notion that we evaluate three words: thinking, planning, and strategy. When we evaluate these three words ...

As the old saying goes, failing to plan is planning to fail. Good leaders know that forethought and preparation are necessary to succeed in this sense. Yet, it's not unusual for founders, executives ...

Nonprofit leaders, midlevel managers, and frontline staff sometimes view strategic planning as one more task heaped onto near-impossible workloads. After all, developing a strategic plan — by ...

Some research highlights that 48 percent of leaders spend less than one day per month discussing strategy. Therefore, it's hardly surprising that nearly half of all organizations– fall short of ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Jo Ann Herold As a ...

In June 2024, the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) launched an ambitious strategic planning process. Now, after a year of engagement, we are proud to share our new five-year ...

To respond to the complexities that appear in business growth, you must scale your business. The first step to scaling your business is to start with a focus on your strategy with an emphasis on ...

Note: This article is the second in a series about how firms can successfully reassess and reimagine their business models. Read the first article here. Failure to plan is planning for failure. That ...

T alk to most college leaders long enough, and they will eventually invoke their institutions’ strategic plans, sometimes as blueprints for specific improvements, other times as almost talismanic ...

The Department of Environmental Studies engaged in an approximately 18-month process in order to agree on the strategic planning document here. Pre-planning for ENVS strategic planning, including work ...

PETOSKEY — A long-term strategic planning process is kicking off for the Public Schools of Petoskey. During a Sept. 16 Board of Education meeting, Michigan Leadership Institute (MLI) representative ...

Over the past several months, students, parents, staff and community partners have been developing a five-year roadmap for Allentown School District, laying out priorities, values and goals for the ...