Running a business without strategy is like driving your car without a clear destination and map to get there. It is both confusing and inefficient. Business isn’t something you make up as you go along. The leader needs ensure he/she is well informed about external industry dynamics and the needed related internal capabilities. The best leaders anticipate, then create the future using a well-informed strategy to make it happen. They also ensure everyone in the organization is clear about this direction and why it’s important.
What Are You Not Seeing? Strategic Blind Spots Every CEO Should Address Every once in a while, I like to interrupt the flow of one of my Vistage meetings or…
The Growth Trap There is a dangerous assumption many business owners make when things start moving in the right direction. They see revenue increasing, backlog growing, new opportunities appearing, the…
Recent global turbulence raises a question: Is the world shifting to a new economic regime for the long run?…
Clarity beats anxiety. Choose the few moves that matter, name the owners, and build the weekly habit that…
Acquisitions and alliances are two pillars of growth strategy. But most businesses don’t treat the two as alternative…
I’m recently taking the online Stanford program Product Management: Accelerated. One of the lectures I found very helpful for…
Annual Goal-Setting and Performance Assessment Tool A Reflective Planning Resource for Leaders Who Want to Align Their Growth,…
Many organizations embark on large-scale transformations, only to end with frustrated leaders and worse-than-expected long-term results. These efforts typically…
From tax shelters to AI recommendation engines, the advantage increasingly goes to whoever best manipulates the rules. If…
Scaling and replication are two different approaches to organically grow your business. Scaling involves increasing the size and…
Why is it so difficult for established companies to pull off the new growth that business model innovation…
Growth is hard work. For the past 27 years, I’ve worked as an executive coach, Vistage Chair, trainer…
In business, there is often no shortage of opportunities for a leadership team to consider. With numerous options, it can…
At its core, the Institute is Boston Consulting Group’s think tank—built to explore and develop new ideas across…
A strategic planning outline serves as a foundational guide for businesses to define their vision, analyze their position…
At its core, Growth Institute is an online executive education platform designed specifically for business owners, CEOs, and…
The challenge in today’s world is not the lack of information but the judgment to use it,” they…
If an executive had fallen asleep in 2019 and just woke up, she wouldn’t recognize the business world of…
Strategy plays out in a world of probabilities, not certainties. That’s why you need to know your odds
Downturns are a recurring fact of life in every industry. Sooner or later, demand for an industry’s products…
The characteristics that help an organization succeed have changed over the past century. While a highly structured, top-down…
Drawing on McKinsey’s extensive research into growth and leadership as well as our experience in partnering with leaders…
MarketResearch.com: Depth Over Guesswork—When You Need to Know, Not Assume There’s a difference between having an opinion… and…
Courage still matters in business and in life. Many of us avoid the difficult decisions or talk ourselves…
Success starts with a clear vision. In this powerful presentation, renowned business growth expert Cameron Herold shares the…
For many companies, a strong, data-driven culture remains elusive, and data are rarely the universal basis for decision…
It’s not news that organizational transformations are prone to failure. To understand the skills, mindsets, and capabilities behind…
After a two-year hiatus, the annual executive retreat is making a comeback. In theory, the CEO gathers company…
Previous economic crises have shown us that companies’ paths to recovery are shaped by their industries, regions, and…
Strategy is a competitive game, which always evolves in response to competition. But the magnitude of the changes…
Most companies communicate strategy as a set of aspirations and platitudes. But aspirations aren’t a strategy, and that…
What makes a company “future ready”? The author analyzed top companies by revenue across four sectors, measuring seven…
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