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Almost all corporate plans cover the next five years. However, many companies go not a single month further. In other words, they survive on one five-year plan after another. If you have ever questioned the wisdom of this practice, keep reading. Your Read More
This is another clip from the Time Ferriss and Mark Zuckerberg interview. How important is it to inspire (and not disempower) employees while working on “big, long-term” goals? Meta’s CEO shares the challenge.
You may have noticed…there is a relationship between setting big, important goals and the time they require. In other words, we all know that in the short-term, it’s unlikely that a company can disrupt an industry.
But what exactly does “long-term” mean? How should a company plan?
Almost all corporate plans cover the next five years. However, many companies go not a single month further. In other words, they survive on one five-year plan after another. If you have ever questioned the wisdom of this practice, keep listening. To Read More
Francis here. This past week we completed a webinar on setting long-term goals in your strategic planning. You probably have thought about the wisdom of this kind of thinking, but don’t know if it would work in your company. Case in point: Read More
Like most other Caribbean firms, your company has focused on its survival for the past two years. Things have been tough: retaining revenue while containing costs has been everyone’s pre-occupation. But you probably know that COVID has, in addition to closing doors, Read More
You may be like Rosemary. She’s the Managing Director of a Caribbean bank, elevated to the post mere months before the onset of the COVID pandemic. Like many leaders of companies, she’s stressed. Ever since the government started to shut down many Read More
As a manager, you may be in trouble. In the past two years, new ways of remote working have come out of nowhere and the debate is on: should you resume face-to-face working? Part of you wants work to be efficient, but Read More
What advice would a strategy expert like Dr. Robert Kaplan give to Caribbean companies? He’s been to the region several times, but his exact words haven’t been captured. Until this interview at the HRMATT Conference of 2015. As a fellow speaker, I Read More
As a manager, you may find it hard to engage in fruitful discussions about the future. You are able to speculate informally over lunch, but be unable to plan strategically in a formal session. You sense that this needs to change, but Read More