This time of year is characterized by the holidays and companies engaging in the annual strategic planning process. The heart of the process is creating a strategy that the plan will execute. But do you have a strategy for creating a strategy? Do you have a “plan to plan?”
Vistage Strategy speaker Marc Emmer does and in a recent blog post on the Vistage website (this one open to non-members as well) offers some commentary on what CEOs get wrong in the planning process and how to best manage one of the most important aspects of leadership.
Check out Vistage’s “Strategic Planning Guide for Leaders and Business Owners.” In addition to Mr. Emmer’s comments, the blog post offers several downloads to help CEOs lead a creative and coherent process including “Strategic Planning: Identifying Gaps in Your Game.” What are the gaps in yours?
But before you start planning a strategy meeting, do you know what strategy really is? This very short article will define it for you and explain that “Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Really Strategies.”
