Farm strategic planning is a concept, a mind set and a process. It is looking down the road at what’s around the bend. When everyone around your farm is focusing on what’s coming you will all recognize it in time to take advantage of it. As things appear on the horizon each of you will [...]
Read More...It seems like we all learn better in groups. In school, from kindergarten to graduate school, you worked on projects in teams or groups. You always seemed to learn more from your peers than when you listened to an instructor droning on about a particular subject. What we all learn talking with and listening to [...]
Read More...If you are the owner of or partner in a small to mid-sized business and you have been deferring succession planning, you need to adjust your thinking. If you are a partner in a professional services firm and you are allowing your clients to defer succession planning, you need to take action to change the [...]
Read More...The online dictionary Wikipedia defines strategic planning as “an organization’s process of defining its direction and making decisions on allocating its resources, including its capital and people. It is often times viewed as a process for determining where an organization is going over the next 3 to 5 years or more”. Strategic planning enables an [...]
Read More...Historically we thought of successful leaders as General Patton types, with their chrome plated helmet with their riding crop slapping their tall shiny black boots. They were our leaders because we were told they were. Theirs was the “don’t do what I do, do what I say do” model. Command and control were usually what [...]
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