AHEAD: Strategy is the way to a better future

Vision and strategy matter. They are most fundamental in life and business. Vision and strategy answer the questions: "Where do we go?" "What do we do?" AHEAD: Strategy is the way to a better future is based on four decades of research, thinking and application by Lee Crumbaugh, a strategy consultant, certified strategic planner and business coach with deep experience leading and growing varied organizations. His mission is to help us understand and tap the power of vision and strategy to transform our organizations. Get it on Amazon..

2016 Strategic Leader Survey Report. Making The Critical Decisions: How Leaders And Organizations Fall Short

The 2016 Strategic Leader Survey offers deep insight on how leaders and organizations can improve decision-making practices for better outcomes. The 106-page report details and benchmarks practices of organizations of varied success, scale and type against what our continuing research shows will produce better decisions and promote future success. Learn more! Get our free report.

2012 Strategic Leaders Survey Report. Strategic Planning And Decision Making: Closing The Strategy Gap

The 2012 Strategic Leader Survey exposes “the strategy gap” – why leaders aren’t more strategic and why organizations don’t plan and implement- and shows how leaders can think and act strategically and instill planning and effective implementation in their organizations. Learn more! Get our free report.

Business planning and presenting the plan

Learn why writing a business plan is important and how to structure your plan for operating, telling and selling. Get the free presentation.

22 Principles I have learned from being an athlete

Strategies, habits and actions taken over time lead to improvement and success. What it takes for long-term success in sport applies equally well to success in business and other walks of life. Lee Crumbaugh offers wisdom accrued from over 57 years of athletics - running, triathlon, biking, swimming, spin classes, abs workouts, speed skating, golf, tennis and even some sailing - wisdom accrues. As a strategy consultant and business coach, he constantly finds himself applying what he has learned from being an athlete to his work improving organizations and coaching decision makers. Watch it on YouTube.

Success is…

Forrest Consulting’s Lee Crumbaugh: “I can help you find greater success and achieve your dreams!” Watch it on YouTube.

Strategic planning infographic

From the benefits of planning to how to do it, it’s all here in slices from our infographic. Get the free PDF.

Planning is the way to future success

Why to plan, what strategic planning is, how to plan and how to implement - this document sums it up. Get the free handout.

BIG DECISIONS: 40 disastrous decisions and thousands of research studies tell us how to make a great decision when it really counts

We don't know how to make a good decision when it really counts. BIG DECISIONS, written by strategist Lee Crumbaugh, is the most comprehensive book available on decision making. Read it for a rich trove of stories, research, facts, insight, and guidance about decisions, bad and good, why we make them, and how to make them better. Get it on Amazon.

2013 Strategic Leader Survey Report. The Promise Of Strategic Planning: How Leaders Are Delivering

The 2013 Strategic Leader Survey digs into use of strategic planning and implementation in all types of organizations. Strategy development and execution approaches that work and those that don’t are identified. It assesses how leaders evaluate strategic risks and opportunities and how this aligns with their approach to planning. Learn more! Get our free report.

In a period of great change, it’s time to focus on resetting your business, “Time for the BIG RE:” reveals how to use the OODA Loop, the fastest planning and execution technique, to enable you to keep up with change and ahead of the competition. Get the free presentation.

Developing a shared vision of greater future success

Developing and pursing a shared vision of great success engages stakeholders. A shared vision drives and guides the organization. Explore the value of a shared vision, learn how to develop a great shared vision statement, get 33 examples of shared vision statements and see what to do after the statement is written. Get the free presentation.

How to Make Better Strategic Decisions.

The underlying reason why strategy fails is that we make bad strategic decisions. Download the presentation. Learn what inhibits good decision making, get examples of bad and good strategic decisions, explore best-practice decision-making tools and view our iDECIDE decision-making framework. Get the free presentation.

Why planning and decision making are keys to success.

Interview of Forrest Consulting’s Lee Crumbaugh. Watch it on YouTube.

Let’s get serious about strategy!

The case for often-neglected strategic planning and how we can help. Watch it on YouTube.

Mental traps and better decisions

Here’s a snapshot of what leads us to make bad decisions, as well as tools and a decision-making system that can help us make better decisions. For cases analyzing bad decisions and more on causes and remedies, see the blog on this website, Strategic Thinking & Strategic Action.. Get the free summary.

10 productivity hacks

How you can achieve more with less time. Take control of your tasks, time and schedule! Use these powerful ways to be the master of your schedule and get more done in less time. Get the free handout.

“Strategic gap” planning model

This snapshot illustrates how gap planning works. This is the planning model at the root of Forrest Consulting’s Fast Track Strategic Planning System. Get the free image.