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You’re In One of Three Positions (And None of Them Are Hoping)

This month’s blog and newsletter topic is “Can you manage by hope?” In these confusing times, if you and your company run without analysis, prediction and planning, you’re managing by hope.  We’ve only got a few months to go until the end of the year. Your company is...

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How Predictable is Hope?

This month’s blog and newsletter topic is “Can you manage by hope?” In these confusing times, if you and your company run without analysis, prediction and planning, you’re managing by hope.  Just how predictable is hope? Let’s take a closer look, using a real-life...

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Hope Requires No Action

This month’s blog and newsletter topic is “Can you manage by hope?” In these confusing times, if you and your company run without analysis, prediction and planning, you’re managing by hope.  Interestingly, when a business is operating in such a fashion, not much...

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Personnel Pressures: AI Is Not The Answer

This month’s newsletter and blog topic is “The growing pressure on middle and upper management.” This pressure comes about from sweeping layoffs in the last year following the pandemic. The consequence has been major gaps in middle and upper management overburdening...

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Today’s Major Opportunity for Small to Medium Businesses

This month’s newsletter and blog topic is “The growing pressure on middle and upper management.” This pressure comes about from sweeping layoffs in the last year following the pandemic. The consequence has been major gaps in middle and upper management overburdening...

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Stop Your Customers from “Quiet Quitting”

This month’s newsletter and blog topic is “The growing pressure on middle and upper management.” This pressure comes about from sweeping layoffs in the last year following the pandemic. The consequence has been major gaps in middle and upper management overburdening...

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Where Are The Great Performers of the Past?

This month’s newsletter and blog topic is “The growing pressure on middle and upper management.” This pressure comes about from sweeping layoffs in the last year following the pandemic. The consequence has been major gaps in middle and upper management overburdening...

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Achievement of Successful Planning

This month’s blog and newsletter topic is “unintended consequences.” When a company reacts to events in the environment or the marketplace without examining those events for themselves, that reaction can have consequences. The usual excuse for them is, “We didn’t...

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Evolution of Stable Planning

This month’s blog and newsletter topic is “unintended consequences.” When a company reacts to events in the environment or the marketplace without examining those events for themselves, that reaction can have consequences. The usual excuse for them is, “We didn’t...

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