Joe Strategy

One of the most dreadful parts of starting a business is writing the business plan. They can be incredibly boring, long-winded and often times end up collecting dust on your bookshelf.

Joe Strategy’s advice to small businesses can fix that! Welcome to Business Plans 101, the most basic and uncomplicated understanding of what’s good and bad about business plans that you will find. Read more

“The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind and still retain the ability to function.  One should, for example be able to see a situation as hopeless yet be determined to make it otherwise.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

Let’s face it, seeing the glass as both half full and half empty at the same time is a difficult task, but one that must happen if a company is to survive and thrive during adversity.  Strategic planning provides a great opportunity to do so, because it allows us to step back from the daily battles, consider the possibilities and establish a direction.  Adversity is better dealt with when we know where the light in the tunnel is and what it represents.  While this can be challenging, Joe Strategy believes there are three skills needed to plan during a crisis. Read more

Or Queen, of course.  The point is that it’s important to look at small business strategic planning with new and fresh thinking and to develop new strategic planning best practices.

Joe Strategy’s advice to small businesses that are either family-owned or managed by a dominant leader is to use the strategic planning tool developed by the Vann Group called “It’s Good to be King!” Essentially, you insert the following exercise into your strategic planning process…. Read more