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On Leadership and Training Others to be Leaders
During a recent podcast interview, Six Disciplines’ CEO Gary Harpst was interviewed by Jim Blasingame (The Small Business Advocate) about one of the key traits of a true leader: the ability to train and encourage others to be leaders.Listen to this pod…
The Five Reasons Strategies Fail
In a recent survey of 163 CEOs by Forbes Insights in conjunction with the Association for Strategic Planning and the Council of Public Relations Firms, chief executives report that one-third of corporate strategies fail, and they fail for five reasons….
Strategic Planning – ‘Tis the Season (Already?)
The following article was written by Eric Kurjan, President of Six Disciplines Northwest Ohio. Six Disciplines brings “big company” process improvement to organizations looking to break beyond the status quo. For more information visit www.SixDisci…
Strategic Planning Retreats – Best Practices
It’s officially Fall in the U.S., and it’s time for organizations to start thinking about this years’ approach to the strategic planning retreat.For your convenience, here’s a collection of the “best of” posts from Be Excellent related to strategic pla…

