It’s nearly February, and the pesky little ground hog and the business about his shadow will soon come and go for the season. Even though you are throwing another log on the fire as you read this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Melissa Houston covers financial issues that affect women in business. Creating a successful business starts with a strong plan.

Every business starts with a vision, which is distilled and communicated through a business plan. In addition to your high-level hopes and dreams, a strong business plan outlines short-term and ...

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 ...

Here’s how to best think about strategic planning, communication rhythms and maintaining alignment for consistent growth as you plan for next year. Daily and weekly communication rhythms ensure ...

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 ...

CEOs are routinely told to “link their strategic plan to their budgets.” Yet over many years, I’ve observed an alarming disconnect between the two. Aligning strategy and budgets is touted as a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a ...

My goal in this oddly titled article is to suggest a near universally applicable strategic measuring stick for choosing ...