Strategic thinking for leadership teams.
25 years helping leadership teams build and execute strategy. Monthly writing on execution, capability, and the discipline that closes the gap between the strategic plan and what actually happens in the field.
11 Lessons from 15 Years in Business: What I Wish I'd Known Sooner
What 15 years of building a business actually teaches you — including the parts no framework prepares you for.
Systems Over Goals: How Management Systems Are the Backbone of Strategy Execution
Why the 12 management systems underneath your strategy matter more than the goals sitting on top of them.
When Waiting Becomes the Riskiest Move: A New Framework for Leading Through Uncertainty
The practical framework for creating momentum when the future isn't clear enough to plan around.
The Strategic Compound Interest That Multiplies Your Business Results
How daily strategic discipline compounds into results that look impossible from the outside.
From Corporate to Consultant: The 4 Greatest Leadership Lessons
Guest Post by Stephanie Mitchell Stephanie Mitchell is the Founder and Principal Consultant at HighPoint Consulting Services, LLC, focused on helping small businesses create and execute sustainable marketing growth strategies. Prior to consulting, Stephanie held...
Man Often Becomes What He Believes Himself to Be (Mahatma Gandhi)
People will say you’re too old, too young, too ugly, too pretty, too fat, too thin, too inexperienced, too jaded to chase that big dream. You should be more realistic. They simply don’t want you to get hurt. Those are their beliefs. Let them keep them....
How Strategic Planning Drove 19% CAGR | A View from the Top Interview
When a leader as accomplished as Craig Funkhouser agrees to share some of his wisdom, we need to listen. So I did. I had the honor of interviewing Craig to learn more about the transformation he led at Shorr Packaging Corp (Shorr) during his tenure as CEO and how...
Why Discomfort IS the Currency of Your Dreams
“Discomfort is the currency of your dreams.” — Brooke Castillo Have truer words been spoken? Recall any significant achievement you’ve accomplished. Was it riddled with ups and downs, times when you thought it seemed impossible and wanted to...
Kill the Company This Strategic Planning Season
Idea in Brief Perspective changes everything. Kill the Company is a bold approach to generate inventive growth opportunities, uncover blind spots, and fuel engagement in the strategic planning process. Learn how to use this perspective-changing tool to help your team...
Need Innovation? Challenge Your Assumptions.
Idea in Brief Innovation is critical to sustained success, and disruption can come when you least expect it. Challenging your strategic assumptions is a great way to take an outsider's view to identify inventive opportunities and expose potential disruptive threats....