It’s nearly February, and the pesky little ground hog and the business about his shadow will soon come and go for the season. Even though you are throwing another log on the fire as you read this ...

You've been building your small business and have arrived at the moment when you're ready to expand; all you need is the cash to do it with. Attracting investors hinges on having a well-thought out ...

Strategic planning is the process a small business owner uses to determine the direction he wants to take the business, set goals and objectives for the company, and decide how to allocate the company ...

Strategic plans both ground us and free us to move forward. Developing a plan creates a common understanding of where we’re going so that we can tell others and invite them to join in. Plans provide a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a ...

A problem that often emerges in business, much as in personal life, is the inability for goals to shape reality. Plans drawn up in the rational, if fictional, world of good intentions, rarely match ...

Strategic planning is a commonly misunderstood concept in the business world. Entrepreneurs and business owners may think they have a strategic plan in place simply because they have goals and a ...

Nonprofit leaders, midlevel managers, and frontline staff sometimes view strategic planning as one more task heaped onto near-impossible workloads. After all, developing a strategic plan — by ...

It’s just about now that the best of the business leaders I work with start making preparations for the upcoming strategic planning season. (Assuming a calendar year-end, proactive leaders try to get ...

As we begin the New Year, we tend to be positive and focus on the future of the year ahead. Some do this in both their personal life and professional life. The best way an organization can address the ...