Happy new work week, month, year, and decade. Are you glad to let 2010 go? Me, too. As we look at our businesses for this coming year, maybe we can do some things better, which may mean doing fewer things — or just the right things. Some ideas are better opportunities than others, and some [...]
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Strategy is focus, and focus is strategy. The secret to failure is trying to please everybody. I just saw a nice example again this morning, as Seth Godin explains why he’s doing just a few things, and not a lot of different things. He calls it the sad truth about marketing shortcuts. If you have [...]
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Not my idea, unfortunately, but a nice play on words. We call this blog Up and Running, but what about Startegy, since it’s about starting up. No, sorry, it would always look like a typo. The following is from “Forget Strategy” on a blog called Metacool: An innocuous typo I saw today got me thinking: [...]
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While some people associate business planning narrowly with sales forecasting, or as a means to obtaining investment, it can also be used by companies to assess the impact of changes to the environmental context. This analysis of the future can help inform strategies and tactics in the present, which help to minimise the likelihood of [...]
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