by Richard Juarez | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized
A few years ago, I asked the Strategy Management Office (SMO) team that I was working with if they thought they had strong employee alignment. I had no reason to doubt them when they confidently responded that yes, their company had excellent alignment at the employee...
by David Wilsey | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized
You have likely heard of the word-guessing game Wordle. If you are on social media, you might even be tired of seeing the related green and yellow grids on your feed each day. You might not know, however, that a few folks have discovered a sneaky way to cheat....
by Richard Juarez | Feb 28, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized
No matter the strategic planning methodology, all strategic plans have objectives (i.e., goals) that the organization must accomplish to achieve specific higher-level outcomes. Once developed, organizations tend to assign ownership of these strategic objectives to...
by Terry Sterling | Feb 16, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized
If you have watched the recent blockbuster series from Netflix, “The Queen’s Gambit,” you can understand why chess is showing such a resurgence in popularity. In fact, there are many books about how life imitates chess. What I’ve seen in my experience here at Balanced...
by David Wilsey | Oct 4, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
Many of you have probably already heard this story commonly shared by consultants, but bear with me. A woman got home from work one day and found her husband preparing a roast for dinner. Before he put the meat in the oven, he cut a few inches off the end and saved it...
