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Here are my top 11 ways to get more from strategy retreats and off-sites

Why is a focus on detailed initiative appraisals unhelpful? There are two major problems:

In my experience, many successful CEOs and senior executives dislike the time they have to spend on developing strategy.

What is a strategy? This seemingly simple question can lead to a wide variety of answers.

Innovation has never been more important to companies as it is now. Here are my top five killers of successful innovation.

The vision statements of many organisations have no resonance outside the boardroom. An effective vision statement has three key elements.

What is your reaction when you hear the phrase “strategic planning”?

Are you giving your front line teams the power to deliver a great customer experience?

High-level strategy is as useful to most workers in an organisation as a high-flying airliner is to people in a bus queue.

Here are eight ways that you can improve your ability to communicate your company’s strategy:

Here are my top 10 strategy pitfalls. How many of these are evident in your business?

If some of the biggest, strongest and most powerful corporations can decline so rapidly then no company is safe

Here are five tactics you can use to develop and enhance your self-confidence:

Here are five ways in which you can improve your chances of getting your ideas heard and approved.

Here are 5 indicators that your organisation has installed too much street furniture.

If you feel that you have a radical, but exciting alternative solution, here are the steps to take:

There are many other ways to grow sales that are often both quicker to deliver and provide better returns.

The fundamental question in this process is whether, like the Red Kite, you trust your judgement and are willing to act in line with it.

Management’s challenge is to deliver cost savings that help both short-term profit performance and longer-term value growth.

What’s your strategy for long-term success through these difficult economic times?

The biggest flaws I see in most executive teams is their desire to do too much.

What holds our companies back, and why is breakthrough innovation so rare? Here are five factors that prevent successful innovation.