Involve Employees in Strategic Planning

Fairly obvious.    Well worth thinking through.   Involve your employees as early as possible.   Use analytic methods to understand the implications for  decisions. " ...  The failure is in the strategic planning process itself. Senior leaders spend copious amounts of time creating the strategic plan, often in isolation. When they return with a plan in hand, they double-down on their time expenditure, seeking “buy-in” from their team. In other words, the strategy is foisted upon employees, who are then tasked with implementing it — without understanding the nuances and debates that went into its creation. ... "