20/20 Vision: How Strategic Planning Helps See the Future

Strategy requires making choices about the future. But here’s the problem: most humans (and organizations) are actually fairly bad at predicting the future! (Remember the now infamous prediction by IBM that the worldwide market for PCs was about four?!) Why? Because, well, the future is uncertain! There are numerous variables, each acting on one other, [...]

2014-06-25T15:16:32-05:00June 25, 2014|

A Story is a Thousand Pictures: The Power of Business Storytelling

  LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT A Story is a Thousand Pictures: The Power of Business Storytelling Which is more compelling? Scenario A: A business leader convenes his staff in an all-employee meeting and provides all sorts of data reflecting their organization’s need to improve customer service: customer satisfaction has declined from 94% to 81% over [...]

2014-05-29T12:26:48-05:00May 29, 2014|

A Story is a Thousand Pictures: The Power of Business Storytelling

Which is more compelling? Scenario A: A business leader convenes his staff in an all-employee meeting and provides all sorts of data reflecting their organization’s need to improve customer service: customer satisfaction has declined from 94% to 81% over the last three years; customer complaints have increased from 12 a week to 23 a week; [...]

2014-05-29T09:10:18-05:00May 29, 2014|

Something to celebrate

Great write-up in the Winona Post This celebration was in recognition of a prestigious award given to Winona Health by the Performance Excellence Network (PEN) called the 2013 Performance Excellence Award. It is a serious accomplishment, only bestowed upon a handful of organizations after rigorous evaluation by independent examiners. The award recognizes leadership, strategic planning, [...]

2014-05-22T14:24:59-05:00May 22, 2014|

April 2014 PEN Newsletter – Pathways to Excellence

Visit the Performance Excellence Network web site Subscribe to our Newsletters LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Pathways to Excellence: Insights from PENworks 2014 Brian S. Lassiter Last week, the Performance Excellence Network hosted our annual (sold out!) conference, PENworks 2014.  The event featured 18 local, regional, and national organizations on the journey to excellence, each sharing best [...]

2014-04-24T11:06:05-05:00April 24, 2014|
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