We also welcome contributions up to 500 words by the management of DMA clients and partners. This column is changed a minimum of the first week of every month. In sprite of the good economy and terrific Y2K business experience being enjoyed, the DMA CEO clients continue to be pressed every month to speed-up their management team's rate of change. Virtually all of our CEO clients are working diligently to speed up the skill and leadership development of their management and staff. Most of these management teams and staffs have not ever been as challenged as they are now to grow, develop and lead the troops to another year of increasing profitability.
Every manager needs to learn to drive down on-going costs.
Usually the company president, the CFO and, maybe, one other senior person carry the on-going, concentrated burden of producing the company bottom line each year. There certainly are at least six refinements to be considered in solidifying your slice of the glory days in the year 2001. Rather than refine and update StratPlans every three years, we insist on annual, on-going updates and changes in listed strategies. To improve this StratPlan process CEO's have been opening up their StratPlan training to larger numbers of managers. They are even including selected, high potential non-managers in the process facilitated by highly experienced DMA team members.