Strategies for Winning in Fast Time Discover the Single Most Important Aspect for Your Business If you sell the best product or offer the best service, your business can still fail. It’s important for your business to have good strategy because strategy is the primary factor that will increase your probability of success and decrease [...]

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Strategic Options: The West and Afghanistan

October 22, 2008

By John A. Warden III In the past I have stressed the importance of thinking strategically before acting and have emphasized the idea that any strategy must address The Essence of Strategy-four critical questions based on single words: Where-do you intend to be at a time point in the future? (Future Picture) What-are you going [...]

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Is Your Organization “Going To Rome”?

May 27, 2008

By Mike Cline, VP Operations, Venturist, Inc. Understanding and applying the fundamental rules or Cardinal Rules of strategy as John likes to call them is essential for success as a Strategic Thinker, Strategic Planner or Strategic Organization.  One of those Cardinal Rules is Go To Rome. Is your organization “Going to Rome”?  I went to Rome [...]

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The Moral Glue of Strategy – Guiding Precepts

May 22, 2008

By Mike Cline, VP Operations, Venturist, Inc. While the Strategic Thinker is well versed in the Essence of Strategy-WHERE, WHAT, HOW and EXIT, there is an element of strategy that all successful strategic enterprises understand and apply well.  That is the moral or behavioral element.  We’ve all heard the mantra that The Ends Don’t Justify [...]

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Stay Out of the Balkans

May 20, 2008

By Mike Cline, VP Operations, Venturist, Inc.   Most of us that are older than 15 probably know where the Balkans are, in some context or another.  The former Yugoslavia experienced a tragic war of disintegration and genocide in the 1990’s and many pundits and politicians in America and Europe thought we should stay out [...]

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Strategic Failures Are Not Uncommon – The Earthlink Wireless Exit

May 14, 2008

By Mike Cline, VP Operations, Venturist, Inc. Strategic failure is not uncommon in business, government, geo-politics and personal enterprises.  The latest example might be Earthlink’s exit from its WiFi scheme in Philadelphia. An important element of The Essence of Strategy is recognizing that Strategic Failure is common and having plans to deal with failure are [...]

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The Intersection of Strategy and Measurement – The Red Light Camera

May 12, 2008

 By John A. Warden III, CEO, Venturist, Inc. Recently, the city of Montgomery, Alabama began installing cameras at key intersections to photograph red light violators.  The objective, or Future Picture, relative to these cameras was recently stated in the local newspaper as: The city has said repeatedly that the ultimate goal of the cameras is [...]

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Think Like An Architect, Not Like A Bricklayer

May 8, 2008

By Mike Cline, VP Operations, Venturist, Inc. Understanding and applying the fundamental rules or Cardinal Rules of strategy as John likes to call them is essential for success as a Strategic Thinker, Strategic Planner or Strategic Organization. One of those rules is: Think like an Architect, Not like a Bricklayer Bricklayers are nothing to be [...]

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Thinking Strategically About Global Climate Change

May 7, 2008

By John A. Warden III, CEO, Venturist, Inc. The Essence of Strategy, at the highest level, consists of asking yourself (and answering!) four one-word questions before embarking on any enterprise that entails risk or reward. Where? Where do I want to be in the future (and am I sure I will be happy with that [...]

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Strategic Measures–Crucial For Success

May 6, 2008

By John A. Warden III, CEO, Venturist, Inc. A strategic measure is one that tells you that you are either on a path to realization of your Future Picture or that you have arrived.  My recent Essence of Strategy post clarifies the concept of Future Pictures.  As I have said before, measurement is hard, but [...]

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