Making Every Executive A Strategist

January 9, 2013
How do you make strategy development and execution more effective? As someone who facilitates lots of planning initiatives, I have some fairly strong opinions on this topic. My number one observation – strategic plan development is periodic but strategy development is every executive’s responsibility, every day.

They have the responsibility to know and understand the environmental and market factors that will have an impact on their organization – and to come up with adjustments to strategy that will continue their competitive advantage. This involves on-going executive team dialogue on strategy (for more on this, the article by . . .