Category Archives: Strategy and the Big Picture

As a group, Americans are not known for planning ahead.  We have had a negative savings rate in this country for many years, until the Great Recession demanded we rethink our profligate ways.  We’re borrowing against our futures as a … Continue reading →

Somewhere between 9,000 and 6,000 years ago, humans began domesticating cattle and cultivating crops, representing the birth of agriculture and by most scholars’ accounts, the beginning of the concept of money.  That concept is essentially that we all agree to … Continue reading →

What I’m going to describe to you is a principle of business strategy, planning and management that will help your organization for many years to come.  It’s not a tool that you can implement today and see the effect tomorrow.  … Continue reading →

“Dear Stan, Our organization, like many others, is experiencing very difficult economic challenges.  So far we’ve been able to not let anyone go, but money is tight and we’re all trying to do more with a lower budget.  We don’t … Continue reading →