Increase Your Companys Productivity -- September is International Strategic Thinking Month

Every business or organization faces a decrease in productivity or profits at some point in its existence. Too often, businesses try to overcome this slump by limiting themselves to strategies that worked in the past. But such an approach hinders their ability to fully develop their strategic thinking capabilities.

Glen Rock, NJ (PRWEB) September 9, 2004 -- Every business or organization faces a decrease in productivity or profits at some point in its existence. Too often, businesses try to overcome this slump by limiting themselves to strategies that worked in the past. But such an approach hinders their ability to fully develop their strategic thinking capabilities.

Business leaders know that a strong strategy is often the key to their success, but implementing these new strategies can be very challenging. Since September is International Strategic Thinking Month," now is a perfect time to improve your businesss strategic thinking skills. Author and business performance expert Pamela S. Harper states, When you know what assumptions may block your strategic planning, you are better prepared to think through these and work together to advance your organization."

In her book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock: Leading Over, Under & Around Organizational Jams to Achieve High Performance Results (Cameo Publications, $19.95, ISBN 0-9715739-4-8), Harper helps company leaders avoid hidden roadblocks and more smoothly integrate execution with strategic thinking and planning. She does this through a process she calls U.N.L.O.C.K.® As she explains, business leaders need to Understand the full challenge, Negotiate buy-in of key stakeholders, Locate cultural advancers and blockers, Organize relevant priorities, goals, and action plans, Communicate credibly, and Keep adjusting.

Hidden roadblocks have a tendency to creep up and take companies toward a path of decreased productivity or profits, so business leaders need to identify these obstacles during their strategic thinking and planning process. Uncovering the hidden roadblocks that often occur is a critical first step for taking control of mysteriously persistent problems. Doing this, along with applying the steps of U.N.L.O.C.K.®, can provide leaders with a faster and smoother route to transform their business strategies and initiatives into high performance," states Harper.

This month, take the steps to proactively seek ways to improve your companys strategic thinking, and then carry this new mindset throughout the rest of the year. As Harper advises, Putting the process to work will better enable you to transform your strategies into the high performance results required in todays high-pressure business environment."

Pamela S. Harper helps business leaders transform their strategies into high performance results by identifying seven roadblocks that stall success and the keys to unlock them. Founder and president of Business Advancement, Inc., Pam bases her in-depth knowledge of the impact of organizational issues on business growth on her 20 years of internal and external consulting to leaders of entrepreneurial, middle market, and Fortune 500 companies.

For more information or a review copy of Preventing Strategic Gridlock: Leading Over, Under & Around Organizational Jams to Achieve High Performance Results, please call 1-866-372-2636 or send an email to Amy@cameopublications.com.

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