Wesemann, Ed. (2012). Creating a Vision for your Firm. Of Counsel, 31(11), 15-16.
The current article “Creating a Vision for your Firm” by Wesemann, 2012 offers a critical analysis and insights on a wider array of issues that organizational personnel, especially leaders and managers should consider in order to enhance the success of their organizations. In fact, the article focusses on strategic planning as a means by which organizations can leverage their success across various contexts. Wesemann, 2012 asserts that “Strategic planning doesn’t have to be the arduous process that many firms (and consultants) make it out to be.” In a nutshell, organizational leaders and manager should always have a plan, which gives a glimpse of where the firm should be in the future. Figuring out where an organization ought to be does not always occur in isolation nor spontaneously. Instead, it calls for a wider array of actions, which offer a comprehensive platform in which an organization can attain the desired outcomes. Many at times, strategic planning is often perceived to be the same as planning. Even so, there is a need to comprehend with the fact that there two concepts differ from each other.
Definitely, planning connotes to a series of actions that would enhance the attainment of the desired outcome. On the contrary, strategic planning necessitates the availability of specific vision of an organization or business, which is dictated by a given time plan. In a nutshell, strategic planning is a decisive prediction on how an organization will move from where it is to the desired position within a given time. For this purpose, it can be deduced that strategic planning calls the availability of vision and mission statement. Recent researches on strategic planning indicate that the strategic planning process within an organization is often clouded by various challenges. One of the most pertinent problem that leaders and managers face when coming with a strategic plan is coming up with vision and mission statements. As a result, organizational personnel often spend a lot of time deliberating on the vision and mission statement, which results in the lack of focus on the mutual purpose of coming up with a strategic plan.
Conclusively, strategic planning is often streamlined to move an organization or business from a given point to the other. Certainly, strategic planning calls for the availability of adequate leadership skills and experience. Precisely, moving an organization from one point calls for the availability of leaders who have an adequate understanding of business or organization. Leaders who have adequate understanding of a given business or organization are well aware of the capabilities of the given businesses or organizations. This means that such leaders can come up with an achievable vision for the business or organization. Evidently, the contemporary world is characterized by a high sense of dynamism, which calls for adequate strategies that can allow organizations and businesses to adapt well with ensuing business conditions. In fact, globalization, which is eminent in the contemporary business world requires managers and leaders to have clear strategic visions for their firms (Bergemann, 2013).
References
Bergemann, R. (2013). An Asperger Leaders Guide to Living and Leading Change. New York: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Daft, R. (2014). The Leadership Experience. Boston: Cengage Learning.
Wesemann, Ed. (2012). Creating a Vision for your Firm. Of Counsel, 31(11), 15-16.
