Strategic planning is always connected to the larger vision and goals your business has. So, when you do it well, a natural, positive side effect is that everybody becomes more aligned.

One of the biggest logjams in strategic planning occurs when the process begins without any agreement on how decisions will be made.

Too many organizations are failing because they fail to plan. Your mission, vision, values, and objectives need to be clearly articulated and lived.

For example, the Apollo 11 moon landing took nine years of planning yet it had a clear outcome. Under shareholder or investor pressure, leaders tend to plan short-term, a common oversight during ...

In addition, the report discusses possible refinements to the baseline strategy, introduced last year, to address specific goals and circumstances, such as uneven expense and income flows, or ...