We are summarizing 25 key slides that visually tell the whole strategy story for a company. Borrowing from some of the best we have seen in action, each is a key component to the planning process and should be valuable to management teams. The Kotler Attack Maps. We have designed competitive targeting strategies using a [...]
Chris was speaking last week at an event, and an executive wondered how long he would be able to retain some of the “outstanding talent” that he had hired during the recession. Essentially, the recession has put a lot of quality people on the street – to no fault of their own. They were caught [...]
I got into a discussion with a CEO recently and we were relaying some common observations between us. He was just commenting that everything from his morning commute to his dry cleaner, employees to suppliers seemed to be “nasty” right now and able to “push his buttons”. He offered that, maybe it was him. But [...]
A great friend of ours, who is now a senior executive at Hanes, told of a story about one of his closest friends in Bombay – a senior executive involved in some of the biggest corporate financing deals in the world for Bank of America. Of all of the pieces I have done for you [...]
I had the pleasure of working with a former naval commander on a recent business project. We were working on a strategic turn-around for a sizeable corporation and needed to articulate the various stages that the company would go through – and the strategies that were needed at each stage to be successful. He introduced [...]
I’ll never forget it. About a year ago, I got a text from a senior leader in a Fortune 500 company. I was working on a project with him at the time and was on-site at the company. From the board room, I get a text that was (essentially) like the following: SL: “R [...]
I got an e-mail from a project manager several years ago, one working for a specific client, and in the subject line of the e-mail, there was: ACTION: and then a subject headline. Over the following several months, I got a series of e-mails from this individual with different headers on it. [This content is for [...]
I watched an executive whom I knew really well in a meeting one day and was struck by something out of the ordinary that he did. We were in a senior executive meeting, everyone was adorned in their best suits (clients were in the room) and at an opportune time, he did something that caught [...]
I got to sit with some folks that were heavy in the investment banking industry recently, and they were talking of the recession and what the emergence out of it meant for the mergers and acquisitions business. Normally, companies will look to expand and purchase competitors or targets that provide them with a diversification strategy [...]
I had the pleasure of sitting with a Senior Manager of a Fortune 500 manufacturer to discuss strategy some time ago. This individual will have to go nameless, but I wanted to bring out a little about a strategy he embarked on – that many of us struggle with. I’ve talked with other leaders about [...]
