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Ken Thompson

Strategic Mindedness: Can You See the Forest Through the Trees?

Strategic Mindedness - Seeing the Forest Through The Trees

Six ways strategic mindedness or acting and thinking strategically, will improve your business outcomes and strengthen your leadership abilities

The Difference Between Problem Solving and Decision Making

Business leaders discuss the difference between problem solving and decision making

An explanation of the differences between problem solving and decision making, and when each should respectively be applied.

Maintaining Organizational Alignment in Difficult Times

Executive considering how to maintain organizational alignment during difficult times

What is most important in structuring your organization for the post-crisis future? A successful comeback requires strong, positive, transparent leadership and good communication.

The Competitive Advantage of Embracing Complexity

Improve your competitive advantage by embracing complexity.

By strategically absorbing complexities for its customers, a well-aligned organization can provide elegantly integrated and customized solutions. Inspiring your team’s shift from a “product focus” to a “solution strategy” will lead to an improved competitive advantage.

Riding in the Rain – New Organizational Strategies for New Times

Riding in the rain compared to organizational strategies for new times

Moving forward, the success of businesses will be influenced by how well they can adapt, replacing old organizational strategies with the ability to react to quickly changing conditions.

5 Tips to Optimize Business Outcomes During COVID-19

Working virtually to optimize business outcomes during COVID-19

Organizations cannot afford to put strategic initiatives on hold. Use this time to focus on ensuring that your company emerges on the other side of the current crisis in a better position for the future.

Organizational Agility: Crucial in Times of Crisis

Organization agility during crisis compared to instinct in geese to lead

Like geese, whose evolved instincts lead them home, agile Alignment Leaders® need to be able to utilize the talents and abilities of team members in creative ways to overcome the challenges incident to a global crisis.

Hope Is Not a Strategy

Change management leaders know that hope is not a strategy

While you can have confidence in any plan, it is not wise to implement your strategy without thorough analysis and planning.

Apache Commander to Consulting the Fortune 500

Avoiding Decision Fatigue

Avoiding Decision Fatigue

An overview of how decision fatigue can undermine even the best leaders and suggestions on how to combat it.