Every well-run company has a strategic plan in writing, ideally also in the hands of every key executive in the company. Not just hopes, dreams and aspirations, but solid goals and targets and timelines they hope to achieve for the benefit of owners/shareholders,...
I sit on an Advisory Board for a long-time client (a privately owned company). After a recent meeting I have a few thoughts for those of you who sit on such boards, or run privately owned companies that have access to such a Board, or have considered forming one. This...
I have just recorded a new educational webinar – it’s an online course entitled: Strategic Planning for the Nonprofit Organization The course is based on my more than 15 years of working with nonprofit agencies from the consultant and board perspective. This course...
There was a lot of press in late February when the Obama administration announced stress test of the largest banks in the TARP program, to see if they were worthy of additional assistance. Today the press talk is about how much of the results of those tests will be...