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Alexander Hamilton - Founding Father & Strategy Consultant

Wish your organization was more invested in your strategic plan? Did you announce the plan with some fanfare only to watch it land with a hollow 'thud?' Are your grand visions yawn-inducing or huzzah-worthy? Business-as-usual becoming depressingly usual?

Listen to Alexander Hamilton, political philosopher, Federalist Papers author, framer of constitutions and, on the subject of strategic engagement, a man ahead of his time:

"Men (and women) often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." (Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804))

I can't help you with the whole 'dislike' thing (at least in the short term) but "reducing opposition" by giving stakeholders more "agency in planning" is my business.

Time to grow. E-mail me at healthcarestrategist@gmail.com if you agree.


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