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“Confidence is a nice suit. Arrogance is the same suit with suspenders, Italian loafers, and gold cuff links.” Tim Schneider, Lead Well

A strategic plan for a business begins with the premise that it is to reorganize and reallocate people and resources to increase the rate of return on capital invested in the business.
In other words, a strategic plan is to make sure that all the business’s assets are aligned to increase the ROI.
Even simpler, the strategic plan is to ensure business success.

Flourishing in today’s culture is synonymous with success in today’s world.  But, by being mindful of flourishing in a biblical sense, rewards not only you and your business, but it also leads to the flourishing of others.  And it benefits your community and the world as a whole.

Business leaders and entrepreneurs must be flexible and effortlessly move from one leadership style to another to meet the changing requirements of organizations and employees. A good leader knows how and when to change his or her style to suit every situation.

Strategic opportunism is not derogatory—in fact, it is a quality that all successful business people have. Strategic opportunism is the ability to focus on long-term objectives while remaining flexible enough to solve day-to-day problems. It is the ability to recognize new opportunities and see how they fit into a business’s strategic plan.

Everyone has conscious and unconscious biases. It doesn’t necessarily mean we’re prejudiced — biases are simply the way we view the world and the people around us based on our background, culture, and self-identity. We are automatically partial to something or someone—it’s the way we are wired.

Give people choice and control. Research has found when people have the option of where to work, they are more highly engaged and highly satisfied at work.

Wouldn’t it be nice if every issue were black and white—crystal clear? Every single issue. Every subject. Every day. It would undoubtedly simplify decision-making, conscience issues, and controversies.

In the slower moving and less complex business environments of times past, the old hierarchical leadership model that depended mostly on only a few people at the top for leadership simply doesn’t work anymore.

One road is paved in scarcity, and the other road is filled with abundance at every turn. The irony is that at any moment, we can choose to change which road we travel.  And, as business leaders and entrepreneurs, we have plenty of opportunities to choose between an abundance mindset and a scarcity mindset.