Strategy Tools

The essential and the most popular business strategy tools for anyone who has to work with people. The Lazy Leader offers well-researched and well-explained strategy tools that are easy to understand. Do you want to improve yourself? Or do you want to understand and improve others?

10 posts

How to Use RAG Status Ratings to Track Project Performance

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Project progress reports often use the traffic light rating system or RAG status definition as a visual cue to project performance.

Oct 16, 2021

Dealing With Complexity—A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories

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When dealing with complexity, we find that our situation is uncertain and there is disagreement about what direction to take, what’s important, and the decisions we need to take.

Jul 10, 2021

Transformational Leadership—A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories

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Transformational Leadership is about transforming the business and changing the organization’s culture. Here we define the transforming leader and list 7 characteristics of the transformational leader.

Jul 5, 2021

Transactional Leadership—A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories

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Transactional Leadership focuses on the role of supervision and getting the job done. But what does this leadership theory tell us about the leader?

Jul 5, 2021

Situational Leadership Theory—A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories

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The Lazy Leader’s Rough Guide to Leadership Models continues with a concise and practical introduction to Hersey and Blanchard model of Situational Leadership Theory.

Jul 2, 2021

How to Use a SWOT Analysis: A Perfect SWOT Analysis Example

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In this article, we show you how to use the SWOT analysis correctly using a simple explanation and example.

May 18, 2021

The Art of Strategy—A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories

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In this post, we learn that the Art of Strategy provides us with a template—model of leadership—for life experiences and dealing with conflict.

May 16, 2021

The Lazy Leader's Guide to Problem-Solving

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In this guide, I show you how to solve problems and introduce a simple 5-step approach to problem-solving that will help solve complicated business problems.

May 14, 2021

Leadership As a Lens—A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories

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Part 1 of our Rough Guide to Leadership Models. In this series, we present various leadership models clearly and concisely, so you may reflect on what they have to offer you.

Mar 11, 2021

What Everybody Ought to Know About Team Building and Situational Leadership

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This short guide looks at team building and compares Tuckman's model of team development with situational leadership. Use it to adapt your management style.

Mar 10, 2021