“If you don’t know where you are going, any path will do” Cheshire Cat, Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Having a strategic plan may not be as important as having a strategic planning process that actively involves leaders in defining, agreeing to, and committing resources toward achieving a compelling future.
The Wunderlin Company provides twenty plus years of experience as both operating executives doing strategic planning and facilitating those processes. We employ that experience to create involving, stimulating and rigorous processes in which leaders define their vision for the future and the measurable goals, strategies and tactics to achieve that vision.
We are not the experts on your organization, you are. An outsider will never have the depth of understanding and knowledge that your organization’s stakeholders will. We’re experts on helping your stakeholders focus their knowledge, attention, experience and passion on achieving your organization’s desired future.
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What Is Working Around Here? Positive Image. Positive Energy. Positive Action.
Who Are You? – Defining Your Purpose and Values
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras. A look at why American corporations last.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t by Jim Collins. Researchers discover the key determinants of great companies and how they got there.
Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins. Collins explains the subtle (but seismic) concepts of Good to Great for the social sector.
Michael E. Porter on Competition by Michael E. Porter. An examination of the international economy.
20/20 Foresight: Crafting Strategy in an Uncertain World by Hugh Courtney. This book provides tools and solutions for strategic decision making processes.
Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Michael E. Porter. The how, what, and why of competitive strategy.
Harvard Business Review on Corporate Strategy. A collection of books on corporate strategy.
Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will: Lessons in Mastering Change – From the Principles Jack Welch is Using to Revolutionize GE by Noel M. Tichy and Stratford Sherman. Study of Jack Welch’s principles on how anyone can succeed.
Breakthrough: How Great Companies Set Outrageous Objectives and Achieve Them by Bill Davidson. Describes how breakthrough companies separate themselves from their rivals with constant business innovation.