While the strategic plan lays out the long-term vision and goals, the operating plan breaks these into practical steps, offering an organized and clear approach to business management. Both plans are essential in navigating the intricate business world and guiding the organization toward success.

Looking through a critical lens helps us take a hard look at the future of the business versus staying in our collective comfort zone and operating in the status quo.

Businesses need strategists who can see a complex international economic, social, and technological environment, identify opportunities, and set directions. They also need analysts to help gather, parse, organize, and make sense out of mountains of information.

Personal assessment instruments, from personality quizzes to aptitude tests, promise a glimpse into our traits, potential, and inner workings. However, as with all instruments, they come with benefits and potential pitfalls. This article sheds light on some of the most significant concerns to consider when selecting a tool or instrument.

Our assessments often open a client’s eyes to behaviors and characteristics that may not have been recognized by the person. Starting from there, a person can build on their strengths, set new goals, and forge a new path to a fruitful life.

Values, responsibility as a role model, focus, and communication serve as the foundation for effective leadership. A strong, stable foundation will help avoid constant trauma.

Because of Charity Water, about 17 million people across 29 countries now have access to clean water. There are still 770 million yet to go. Wouldn't it be wonderful to enable clean water for everyone who needs it during our lifetime?

Live in your customers' experiences. You may be surprised by what you learn.

If your customers' experiences don't meet your desired outcome, you may want to re-evaluate and re-align your foundational embedded assumptions about peoples' wants and needs.

Business is indeed about money, growth, and profits. But a good leader also recognizes that business is very personal to every human at every level that interacts with that business.