by Harriet Cohen | Dec 10, 2025 | accountability, Professional development, strategic planning
Your Strategic Planning Checklist for Next Year (aka: The Reality Check You’ve Been Avoiding)** If you read Part 1, you already know I believe most leaders aren’t stuck because they’re not smart — they’re stuck because they’re trying to drag last year’s habits into...
by Harriet Cohen | Nov 23, 2025 | business tools, future planning, Leadership
Just like people are remembered for how they lived and treated others, businesses are remembered for how they served their customers. A founder’s values might be personal—but in a company, those values must be intentionally protected, or they’ll evaporate faster than...
by Harriet Cohen | Sep 14, 2025 | change, innovation, Inspiration, strategic planning
If you are not familiar with Blue Ocean Strategies W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne I suggest you check out the website, and this article will look at how you can use their ideas to to develop the SWOT to overcome threats. Turning Threats into Opportunities: How...
by Harriet Cohen | Sep 14, 2025 | innovation, Inspiration, strategic planning
In business as in life there are many tools that help us grow and move forward. Unfortunately, we often use them once then put the results on the shelf and rarely use them again. Please don’t do that with a SWOT. This tool, when used correctly can give great...
by Harriet Cohen | Jul 18, 2025 | bias, change, future planning, Goals
As I was looking at graphics for the previous article, I came across Rosie the Riveter. It is interesting in time of need women took over men’s jobs, maintained the homes and took care of the kids. Afte the war, someone decide women had to return to their old...
by Harriet Cohen | Jun 23, 2025 | customers, innovation, Inspiration, marketing, strategic planning
If you’re wondering why it feels harder to bring in new business lately, you’re not alone. Whether you run a small business, lead a team, or manage a division, growth can stall — even when you’re doing a lot of things right. Here’s the good news: the reasons you’re...
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