Design (with a capital D)

The One-Page Strategic Plan is a framework that will help your company visualize and achieve its goals.

There are a number of questions you’ll need to answer when designing your own OPSP: Who is responsible for each step? What is your number one priority for the next year? ...

• Focus on what’s being said instead of how it affects you or what you want to say.
• Put away your phone. It’s rude and multitasking takes away from comprehension.
• Ask follow-up and confirmation questions. This shows you’re listening and care about wh...

• Consider that any hierarchy creates winners and losers. The winners are more likely to justify the hierarchy and the losers to criticize it.
• Understand that hierarchy is inescapable. The pursuit of goals lends life meaning and the collective pursuit of goals produces hi...