When To Change Strategy
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The ability to modify strategy at the right time can literally save or destroy a business. This week, we hear from our special dead guest, Rod Serling, and his narration of The Strategy Light Zone. We talk about a checklist of five moments when it's critical to reevaluate your strategy, how to look for evolution and customer needs, the distinction between strategy and tactics, and what we can learn from Chipotle on increasing the perceived value of a product or brand. You’ll also learn about the five steps to a solid strategy process. What You’ll Hear In this Episode: ...
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Decide, Delegate and Dominate
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This episode, it’s all about decision-making and delegation, with an appearance from the dastardly Decision Demon and special dead guest Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the greatest strategic minds in history on how he makes decisions. You’ll learn tips and techniques to clarify decision rights, identify the causes of faulty decision-making, and maximize your time through better delegation. What You’ll Hear In this Episode: Resource allocation requires us to make trade-offs. The nine causes of faulty decision making - which one of these does your team fall into most...
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Innovation: Creating New Value
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When is the last time that you and your team truly created new value for your customers? Today, I share three ways that you can take the concept of innovation and apply an innovative thinking mindset to your daily activities. I welcome dead guest, Leonardo da Vinci, to talk about the importance of observation while innovating, and using a technique called domain jumping to turbo charge your business and escape the mental ruts. You will also learn how to apply the Value Mining Matrix to your business to create new value by exploring customers and their needs in unique ways. What...
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A Strategic Approach To Planning
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A survey of two thousand executives by McKinsey and Company showed that only 19% of companies have a definite and distinct process for developing strategy. That means for the majority of organizations, strategy development is a random and crisis driven event…if it even happens at all. Today, I’m excited to share with you a proven process for developing strategy. First, I welcome one of the greatest strategic minds in history, Carl von Clausewitz, to share his planning approach, and you’ll also learn how to distill your entire strategic plan into 1-2 pages. Then, I welcome the *almost*...
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How To Think, Plan, & Act Strategically…Every Day.
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It’s a jam-packed episode as we dive into a proven framework to create a strategic team, and help your team set clear and compelling strategic direction. First, I discuss ways to maximize your strategic leadership potential by reviewing the 3A Strategic Thinking framework. Here you’ll learn to apply several new strategic tools to your business to create more insights, make strategic trade-offs and better align your priorities with your time. I’ll then chat with our dead guest, Dr. Igor Ansoff, considered by many to be the father of strategic management. Finally, I share Dr....
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What is Strategy?
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Welcome to the Strategic Executive Show. I’m your host Rich Horwath, founder of The Strategic Thinking Institute. In this series, I’ll share tools, tips and techniques to enhance your strategic thinking and planning capabilities to set direction, create advantage and achieve your goals. This week, it’s all about digging into what strategy is at its core, and how to understand and reconnect with its true purpose and meaning. First, I’ll chat with a special guest–Chinese General, philosopher, and author of, The Art of War, Sun Tzu–and by the way, he’s dead–to...
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Are you strategic? New York Times bestselling author on strategy Rich Horwath shares tools, tips, and techniques to enhance your strategic thinking and planning skills to set direction, create advantage, and achieve your goals. Sometimes he has live guests, and sometimes he has dead guests…tune in to find out who he’s talking about strategy with this episode.
info_outlineWelcome to the Strategic Executive Show. I’m your host Rich Horwath, founder of The Strategic Thinking Institute. In this series, I’ll share tools, tips and techniques to enhance your strategic thinking and planning capabilities to set direction, create advantage and achieve your goals. This week, it’s all about digging into what strategy is at its core, and how to understand and reconnect with its true purpose and meaning.
First, I’ll chat with a special guest–Chinese General, philosopher, and author of, The Art of War, Sun Tzu–and by the way, he’s dead–to talk about the core differences between strategy and tactics, how effective strategy can create a roadmap to your goals, and the importance of tuning up your strategic plan to adapt to your evolving environment. Then, we dive into the most common mistake regarding strategy, and why mistaking operational effectiveness for strategy can prevent you from separating yourself from the pack. Our first episode wouldn’t be complete without a quick visit from Strategy Jack, to help us break down some tools and techniques to craft an impactful roadmap. Let’s strategize!
What You’ll Hear In This Episode:
- How strategy has become convoluted and confused with other terms in business.
- The common traps to avoid when developing your strategy.
- The difference between strategy and tactics.
- Why strategy without insight compromises your competitive advantage.
- The three elements within an impactful strategy: Resource allocation, unique system of activity, and primary components.
- What research says 93% of the top financially performing companies have in common.
- What two questions good planning should aim to answer.
- The G.O.S.T. Framework: Goals, objectives, strategies, and tactics.
Quotes/Tweetables:
- “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat” [3:50] -Sun Tzu
- “Without strategy, it becomes a game of tactical roulette, where you're just throwing things up on the wall to see what sticks. With strategy in place, it provides a path to your destination.” [4:00] -Rich
- “Preparation is seldom exciting, but it is the foundation of success.” [5:02] -Rich
- “Simply put, strategy is how you plan to achieve a goal.” [8:30] -Rich
- “Show me how your people are spending their time, talent and budget every day, and you'll see your true strategy.” [9:15] -Rich
- “Good leaders don't leave strategy to chance” [9:30] -Rich
- “It's not until you get off the beaten path that the beating can begin” [10:38] -Rich
- “It's very difficult to fix something that's been done badly, you'd better do your thinking and planning up front when you have the time.” [17:27] -David Mamet
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