I recently helped a large industrial manufacturing company with its strategic planning process. With so much uncertainty surrounding autonomous vehicles, 5G, robotics, global trade, and the oil ...

As the old saying goes, failing to plan is planning to fail. Good leaders know that forethought and preparation are necessary to succeed in this sense. Yet, it's not unusual for founders, executives ...

If your current approach to budgeting feels rigid, outdated or disconnected from your goals, it’s time to reimagine it.

To respond to the complexities that appear in business growth, you must scale your business. The first step to scaling your business is to start with a focus on your strategy with an emphasis on ...

When preparing for 2025 and all the unknowns the future inevitably holds, a thorough strategic plan is critical to driving meaningful outcomes for any business. Effective strategic plans reflect on ...

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 ...

Every business book stresses the need for companies to do strategic planning. Every motivational speaker emphasizes the need to set goals to be successful in business and life. Yet few contactors have ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “Everybody has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth,” Mike Tyson famously said in 1987. History teaches us that we will face ...

In the journey of entrepreneurship, steering a small business toward growth is akin to navigating a ship through unpredictable waters. The key to not only surviving but thriving in this endeavor lies ...

Budget planning is a continuous strategic process, not a one-time chore. Businesses failing to embrace this process risk ...

People vary on all manner of continua, from short to tall, slow to brilliant, controlled to impulsive. Among the more malleable continua is strategic to detail-oriented. Pluses of strategic people ...