Category: Strategy
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A History of Strategy Timeline
Posted on: Friday, March 15th, 2013 by richhorwathIn their text book, Strategy in the 21st Century, DePaul University professor Earl Young and Randall Rollins visually describe the history of strategy in a timeline format. I’m honored and humbled to be included for my work in the field… read more
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IT Without Strategy is a Hobby
Posted on: Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 by richhorwathA recent study published in CIO Magazine of 650 senior IT leaders asked what their top talent-management issues centered around. Three of the top four involved strategic thinking. Here is the list: 1. Cultivating strategic thinking 2. Finding or developing technical… read more
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Strategic Thinking and Profitable Growth
Posted on: Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 by stagehandAre you getting beat? It’s a simple question whose answer consists of either a confident “No,” or the defiant, “Yes, but…” that’s littered with excuses. To be clear, the response is a one-word answer. If your answer isn’t the one… read more
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Behaving Strategically
Posted on: Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012 by richhorwathAs you interact with your managers on a daily basis, their behaviors will often tell you a great deal more than their words. We’ve all been in meetings where a person uses the word “strategic” to preface the majority of… read more
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Is Your Strategy Obsolete?
Posted on: Thursday, August 23rd, 2012 by richhorwathWe as human beings don’t like to change. The Johns Hopkins school of Medicine reports several studies of people who underwent a type of heart surgery called CABG, or coronary artery bypass grafting. The doctors met with patients right after… read more
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Defender, Challenger or Spectator?
Posted on: Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 by richhorwathA condition is a situation with respect to circumstances. The term condition can be applied to a number of different arenas, from medicine (What is the patient’s condition?) to sports (What are the conditions of the golf course?). Before a… read more
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"How's a Strategy?"
Posted on: Friday, June 1st, 2012 by richhorwathAbbott: Well Costello, this year’s strategic plan has to be the best ever. Costello: Yes, Abbott and we’ve got to get it just right. The first thing we need to do is make sure everybody understands the key planning terms…. read more
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The Strategylight Zone
Posted on: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 by richhorwathThere is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to most managers. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between art and science, between the qualitative and quantitative… read more
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Pick-Up-Sticks for Strategic Thinking Tools
Posted on: Thursday, May 10th, 2012 by richhorwathPick-Up-Sticks is a game many of us played as kids. If you recall, a bundle of sticks roughly six inches long are held in a loose bunch and released on a table top, falling in random disarray. Each player then… read more
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"Play Business!"–Creating a Strategy Spring Training
Posted on: Monday, March 19th, 2012 by richhorwathMajor League Baseball’s annual spring training means the welcoming back of warmer weather, the smell of freshly mown grass and another year of the Chicago Cubs not winning the World Series. Men making millions of dollars a year, the best… read more
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