Strategy Planning for a Healthy Future. There, I said it! Often, those words send shudders through leadership teams who dread the process of it -meetings you hardly have time for, determining strategies for sustaining the firm, keeping the teams engaged, and ultimately adding to the bottom line. Many firms are feeling the effects of reduced…
I’ve been hitting a lot of company websites, and reading about a firm before I meet with them. It’s interesting how firms sell themselves either to their clients or to their prospective employees: firm philosophy, culture, people, their way of doing business – whatever. The “pitch†may be far from the reality. When you pull back the top layers of any organization you will most likely find a very different opinion from what top leadership thinks the website should say about the firm. So how do you instill a culture where everyone in the firm has a shared sense of the way things are there and it is…
Companies are developing strategies for the coming year right now. In doing so, I suggest they start at the end and work back by asking these questions: What do we want to be known best in class for? What are we really good at? What are our current capabilities? Where do we really need to…
Well, let’s be clear – we can’t have one without the other. There’s a lot of pressure in the workplace to be a leader – but not everyone is cut out for that path. There is nothing wrong with team members who don’t desire to rise in the ranks, and in fact, without them firms…
At what point should a firm consider abandoning a fruitless path and move to another? How many resources can you expend on a particular initiative, such as a geographic expansion, new market penetration, or service offering? Creating an environment that embraces change, empowers and motivates team members to seize opportunity and share their entrepreneurial spirit…