Strategic Planning

Can you believe the first quarter of the year is almost over?! When you look at your business, the amount of money you’ve earned, the number of new clients you’ve added, are you 25% to where you want to be for the year? If not, why not? And what do you plan to do about [...]

Choices you make could be a matter of life and death. Or they could be a matter of joy or despair. Sometimes we’re not happy with any of our alternatives. But champions know how to take lemons and make lemonade.
There’s lots of excitement and enthusiasm about the 2008 US presidential campaign. Reporter, journalists and political [...]

It happens in business, it happens in politics, it happens in life. There are those that wait for things to happen and there are those that make things happen.
There are those that are in control and those that are controlled.
There are those that have concluded it is [...]

Creating your own product to sell online is not as hard as it may seem at first. These days digital products are a hot commodity simply because they are informative, easily obtainable, and cost less than physical products.
The first step to creating a product that will sell well and will easily make you several [...]

Some individuals looking to form a Nevada corporation or LLC are hoping that if they get sued no one will find out who the owner of the corporation or LLC is, thus, preventing them from being the target of frivolous lawsuits. In the context of litigation, the best scenario is presenting a properly structured [...]

You get what you pay for is the consumer’s mantra. Common sense knows that if it costs less it is more likely of inferior quality.
Unfortunately quality is relative and subjective and even unwieldy. For that reason and common sense the value the customer puts on quality is where the [...]

Once you have decided on your big goal, it’s time to start putting resources in place that you need. Firstly, complete a Concept Card (1), fill in the details of your coach, key advisors and key resources but right now I am only going to talk about selecting a coach.
You will probably have to pay [...]

Put the average company into a high-growth situation (for its industry) for the first time, and you’ll soon see overoptimism sprouting everywhere. In the aftermath of the Arab oil embargo and the subsequent rise in the cost of energy, Americans began using all sorts of new ways to reduce their energy use and costs.
One [...]

Let me take you back a few years to my government days, when I was head of the Corporate Development team within a peak government department. One of the areas my team looked after was Strategic and Business Planning for the department and all of the little units within the department.
Now at that time [...]

Growth is what it is all about. Companies that do not grow do not make money. There is a direct correlation between growth and making money.
Historically growth has most often been expensive and somewhat illusory hence the willingness to accept as much growth as fast as possible.
Anyone [...]