The votes (page views) have been counted, the results can be announced!
Our top 10 blog posts in 2011 were:
- The 2 Truths Every Business Owner Has To Face which I wrote in early May was the winner by a significant margin. It talks about why many owners ignore the second truth.
- 4 Things Every Business Owner Must Think About deals with the 6 reasons companies are sold and the 2 factors which are common to all of them.
- 10 Tips To Improve Your Public Speaking Body Language written by Mark Bowden of TruthPlane, is the first of our guest posts to make the list.
- Why You Need A Consultant With Hands-On Experience is one of several posts we wrote during the year about how to work with consultants.
- Bad Strategy – How To Spot It discusses the 4 hallmarks of bad strategy identified by Richard Rumelt in his book “Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters”.
- Leading Business Plan Execution is the second guest post to make the list. Brian Brennan a Chartered Accountant and Chair for TEC Canada wrote this piece for us.
- Strategy, Culture and Leadership deals with how these 3 things affect the development and the execution of strategy.
- Social Media And Strategic Planning Make Interesting Bedfellows Marie Wiese of Marketing Co-Pilot demonstrates how social media can be used to strengthen the strategic planning process.
- 3 Surprising Strategies (Or Not) comments on 3 surprising things that emerged from the responses to our survey of 600 people in our database.
- 4 Laws Of Effective Implementation is one of the first pieces I ever wrote. If a weak plan strongly executed really is better than a strong plan weakly executed here are 4 “laws” that will make sure you execute effectively.
If you haven’t seen them before, here’s your opportunity!
Tags: business, business plan execution, consultant, Culture, implementation, Leadership, public speaking, strategic planning, strategies