Prevent Strategic Plan From Stagnating

Designed & Presented by
Salah Anwar Skaik
Copyright © 2012 - S.A.S
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A Rolling Stone Gathers
No moss
Prevent Your Strategic Plan
From Stagnating 3

Emerald Article
2012
John W. Myrna
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Main Objectives of the Paper
 Explaining the critical importance of
actually using and implementing your
company’s strategic plan.
 Offering practical tips for avoiding the
most common traps that keep a
strategic plan ignored or sitting on a
shelf.
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Introduction
Just as a rolling stone gathers
no moss, a strategic plan that’s
actually used will gather
no dust.
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Introduction
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Companies devote time and
energy to developing strategic
plans, only to never look at
them again once they have
been printed out.

The Four Most Common Traps
The four most common traps that
keep strategic plan on the Shelf:
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Cont. The Four Most Common
Traps
Trap 1
Mismanaging People Who Do
Not Implement As Asked.
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Trap 2
Undermining Personal Motivation
And Ownership.
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Traps

Trap 3
Losing Momentum In The Face Of
Daily Operational Needs.
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Traps

Trap 4
Failing To Accept How The
“Real World” Works
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Traps

Trap 1: Mismanaging people who
do not implement as asked
Why do people fail to do
what you have asked them
to do ??????!!!!!!
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Reason No. 1
People Do Not Realize You Really
Want Them To Do What
You Have Asked.
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Why do people fail to do what you have asked them to do?

Reason No. 2
People Do Not Want
To Do It.
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Reason No. 3
People Do not Know How To do It.
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Reason No. 4
People Do not Have A System To
Keep Up The Momentum
Once They Begin.
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Trap 2: Undermining personal
motivation and ownership
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Failing to create a planning experiences
and then sustain an environment that
encourages personal motivation and
ownership

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Example
Think about the experience of reading a
play versus attending an excellent
performance of that play

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Example
Or Have you ever read sheet music and
then attended an excellent performance
of the piece?

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Key No. 1
Soliciting Independent Thoughts
The key elements of creating a positive strategic planning
experience are these:

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Key No. 2
Sustaining Interactions Between
Team Members

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Key No. 3
Building A Shared Visualization
Of The Future

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Key No. 4
Identifying this year’s focus on status quo
changes will accelerate the motion
toward the shared visualization of the
future

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Do Not Get Wrong!!!

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Trap 3: Losing Momentum In The
Face Of Daily Operational Needs
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Trap 3:
Losing Momentum In The

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1- AGREEMENT
Progress Accelerator Phases

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2- ACCOUNTABILITY

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3- ACTION

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4- ASSESSMENT

Trap 4: Failing To Accept How The
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Draft
Vs.
Version 1.0 Plan
The Words You Use Affect Your Outcomes

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Try
Do or do not. there is no try
When we finish
Vs.
If we finish

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Positive Ends
Ex: Setting an objective to increase employee and customer
retention rather than “Reduce Turnover”

In the real world
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 People do not recognize progress or connect the
dots.
 You need to feed the souls of your team
members
 Periodically, take some time to identify and
celebrate everything you have accomplished
 Tie the accomplishments back to your plan,
 If you do not, people will lose faith that the plan
is working

Remember
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 Strategy is a shared visualization
of where your team wants to be
within three to five years

Remember
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 What makes a strategic plan
“strategic” is its ability to
change the status quo

Remember
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 Building implementation into your
planning process from the very
start and avoiding the four most
common traps will keep your
company’s strategic plan from
joining too many others in the
“dustbin history”

THE END
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