Business owners who generate profits due to their hard work and astute decisions often discover that running a successful enterprise can also have a downside. All things being equal, as profits ...

Sir Winston Churchill said, “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” While this quote is a little tongue in cheek, the unfortunate reality is that companies and ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Jo Ann Herold As a ...

Healthcare reform legislation has increased demands concerning quality, cost and efficiency of hospitals and health systems. One way to manage these expectations is to create a strategic plan that ...

Nonprofit leaders, midlevel managers, and frontline staff sometimes view strategic planning as one more task heaped onto near-impossible workloads. After all, developing a strategic plan — by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I enable organizations to simplify so they can focus on valuable work. You know the annual drill: you and your teams gather data, ...

While critical to a hospital’s success, strong strategic plans can be difficult to develop. Some common mistakes hospitals make when developing a strategic plan include failing to examine the mission ...

There’s no “I” in team. Here are some ways to surround yourself with motivated employees who drive your company to success. One of the beauties of being an entrepreneur, as opposed to a solo ...

Kane County is considering a strategic planning process to create a five-year road map for the future of the county, which would be the first time the county has created such a plan since 2006. The ...

Aspen City Council has set its priorities.  In a Tuesday council meeting, the city approved its first ever strategic plan, outlining six “strategic objectives” to guide council decision-making over ...