Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

Big Picture

"You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards."  -Steve Jobs 

Focus

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you get 1oo people all working together on just 3 priorities instead of 1,000.  #strategy

Strategic Decisions

Financial data comes from the past; relying too heavily on it to make decisions about the future is like looking in the rearview mirror to see where you're going.  #strategy.

Strategy

Improvisation will only bring you as far as the next crisis, and is never a substitute for thinking several steps ahead and planning to the end.  #strategy 

Strategy

There can be no business plan without a talent plan to back it up.  #strategy 

Strategy

When developing a company's strategy, sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease.   #strategy

Strategy

If the tactics don't work, the strategy doesn't matter.   #strategy

Strategy

Clear premises enable clear thinking.  In strategic planning, assumptions are our premises, and it's hard to think clearly without good ones.   #strategy

Strategy

Strategy should be corrected immediately when its underlying assumptions don't play out.  But that's hard to do when you don't know what your assumptions are.  #strategy 

Strategy

Organizations would be wise to focus their efforts on strategic "doing" vs strategic planning. Published failure rates for strategic planning range from 70 to 90 percent.   #strategy