Archive for December, 2008

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Make Strategy Inspiring (quote)

Before I head off for a well earned – and overdue break – here’s a great quote that relates to the last few weeks of work that I’ve been focusing on: “Strategy can be awfully boring. The consultants can be straighter than we academics, not to mention the planners. Everybody is so serious. If that [...]

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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

McKinsey on strategy in uncertain times

The recent issue of the McKinsey update had a couple of articles that weighed in on strategic planning in uncertain times.  A couple of these were worth sharing: Remember that the most important decisions for most companies will truly be [...the ones where there is little level of certainty.]  Our standard strategic-planning tool kits—the ones [...]

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