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<description><![CDATA[Clint Burdett CMC consults on strategy and is an expert strategic planning facilitator who guides management through a team planning process for integrated strategic, operational and implementation plans. He teaches the strategy formulation process and is a coach and trusted advisor on strategy, leadership and communication issues for CEOs and their senior Vice Presidents.]]></description>
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<title>A High Performance Firm Looks Like This</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:22:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To create a high performance firm is a goal for many entrepreneurs and CEOs and is much discussed in the business press. Of course innovation and a customer focus lead the list of core competencies needed, but when I asked over 900 business leaders in seminars on strategic planning what they considered the attributes of a high performance firm, their opinions were more pragmatic and nearly universal.]]></description>
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<title>How to Get Folks to Accept Accountability at Strategic Planning Meetings</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:13:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A very frustrating outcome of planning meetings is that you think you have agreement around the table on what is to be done and who will do it, but a month later someone "recalls" that they were not accountable. Folks commonly agree to a concept in a meeting but do not explicitly accept accountability to execute. The solution to get people to be accountable involves how you run and finish a meeting -a leadership approach which respects the integrity and experience of those at the meeting.]]></description>
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<title>Watch For Savings Rate to Drop Off - The Sign Consumers Are Spending Enough to Sustain the Recovery</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:34:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Following most recessions, consumers continue to increase their savings for some months to rebuild their buffer. Since the 1960s, with an exception in 2002, they waited about 9 to 18 months before they reduced their contributions to savings and spent more in the marketplace. When do you build up inventory expecting demand to surge?]]></description>
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<title>Finding Growth Opportunities - Questions to Ask Your Employees</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:14:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As we emerge from the Great Recession, asking your employees about your customers will lead to growth opportunities. Five approaches to uncover those opportunities from your customers.]]></description>
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<title>How to Improve Your SWOT Discussions - Stay Focused, Stay on Point</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:41:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How to SWOT better. Six techniques to improve the quality of discussions using a SWOT to structure the conversations when developing a strategy, brainstorming, reacting to a crisis, educating a team.]]></description>
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<title>A Strategic Planner's Responsibility is to Anticipate Consumer Demand</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:31:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A consensus emerging is in 2010 we will see a slow recovery, with a chance of a double dip. Company strategists, consultants and planning teams will be challenged to manage the pace of growth as they assess consumer spending. This article describes how to compare your sales to national patterns to see if your customers' spending is leading, coincident or lagging national trends.]]></description>
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<title>The Best Style For Vision and Mission Statements - Less is More</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:08:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a strategic planning consultant and facilitator, I have helped many companies write their vision and mission statements. There are key components to include and it often takes hours to write because at a core, personal level, the boss or team are writing down who you are and what needs to be done, together.]]></description>
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<title>Financial Crisis Inquiry - Commission Hearing Must Have a Positive Impact</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:21:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our Great Recession has made me and perhaps you skeptical about the quality of government's work to improve our quality of life. Starting on January 13th, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a 10 member panel appointed last summer by Congress will begin the public hearings phase. Will their work have real, positive impact?]]></description>
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<title>Bernanke Argues For Better, Smarter Regulation and Responsible Business Leadership</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:57:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At the start of 2010, I ask you to think about your strategic responsibility. Read or watch Chairman Bernanke's January 3rd remarks to think about the big picture and your role during the recovery. ]]></description>
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<title>Consumers Holding Back Will Put Downward Pressure on Salaries For New Hires</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:45:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Getting re-hired is going to involve tough choices on salaries. None of us want to be caught off guard again, to let overconfidence upset years of planning and savings to support your family so lower your expectations. The irony is that these lowered salary expectations will keep the recovery slow as consumers scale back.]]></description>
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<title>Use Scenario Planning to Adapt As We Emerge From This Recession</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:24:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Scenario planning is an efficient, cost-effective method used to observe, understand and adapt to economic, social, technical and political developments that will impact your organization, community and region. As we emerge from the recession with consumers holding back, scenario planning prepares a firm to adapt intelligently. The method helps push your planning horizon out to about five years.]]></description>
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<title>Watch the Census Bureau's Total Business Sales to Inventories Report to See Demand Pick Up</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:32:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To watch for demand pick up, follow the US Total Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales data and ratio of sales to inventories compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau.  In April 2009, sales are still decreasing faster than inventories are being drawn down.]]></description>
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<title>The Housing Sector Will Not Lead Us Out of the Recession</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:26:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Spending on our homes is a fundamental driver of the US economy, but the housing sector will lag as the US economy begins to recover. Keep an eye on the National Association of Realtors monthly "National Existing Home Sales" report to anticipate when housing will drive economic growth.]]></description>
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<title>What Drives Your Long Term Business Success? - Study Macro Trends to Find Out</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:59:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Strategists analyze macro trends looking for what will drive growth in their business. How to study your market to identify trends that will "drive" you business's growth.]]></description>
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<title>Green Shoots? Hints of an Economic Recovery Are Premature</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 15:04:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The mid-March and April 2009 market rally suggests equity investors are anticipating the recovery. There has been good news. A text book recovery would see the stock markets react to the good news about 60% to 70% of the way through the recession as firms prepare for a rapid recovery.]]></description>
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