The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Jo Ann Herold As a ...

Cognitive science and behavioral economics scholars have conducted research on people who are the most skilled forecasters among us. Did you know that the typical five-year strategic planning forecast ...

Successful leaders have to keep multiple plates spinning. Long-term planning is a continuous process, one that requires grit, determination and resilience. Business leaders have faced extraordinary ...

Strategic planning is a commonly misunderstood concept in the business world. Entrepreneurs and business owners may think they have a strategic plan in place simply because they have goals and a ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Stephen Nalley Selling a ...

It happens all the time — you attend a seminar and hear the speaker say, “You need a good business strategy if you’re going to be successful.” You leave the meeting with the very best intentions, but ...

Planning is a core activity of every organization and core to how we operate. But as all military leaders know, “no plan survives first contact.” This year, in particular, has made that truth doubly ...

The city of Vacaville hosted Strategic Planning focus groups in person on Friday and Saturday, and will host a Virtual Focus Group on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 6 p.m. The focus groups, combined with an ...

FARMINGTON -- A strategic planning consultant told city leaders and staff in April to "dream big" when thinking about how the city would grow in the next 10 years. Two planning sessions later, the ...

About seven years ago, her company went through a five-year strategic planning process. Well, it didn’t go according to plan. The controversy surrounding Obamacare after Donald Trump ’s election and ...