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Strategic Thinking It’s More Than Just Arriving at the Right Answer

Strategic Thinking - UACPA 2016 Leadership Academy

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Strategic ThinkingIts More Than Just Arriving at the Right Answer

Just How Important is it?Study of 60,000 leaders:

We found that a strategic approach to leadership was, on average, 10 times more important to the perception of effectiveness than other behaviors studied.

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Numbers: THE answer to all of the worlds problems . . .

Why do you think we didnt get the results we were after?3

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words . . .

60,000 times faster than text5

MBSN Management By Sticky Note (hat tip to Tom Hood)

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Make Your Thinking VisibleMay the best ideas win!

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Let People Weigh In

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Trust the Wisdom of the Group

No matter how much I know, the group always knows better.

~ Albert Einstein

The most fundamental human need . . .

Structural Improvements . . .

From Advocacy to Inquiry

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Focus on Possibilities

What is the one thing that would have the biggest impact?13

Contact Info

Dan Griffiths, CPA, CGMA is the Director of Strategic Planning at Tanner, LLC, a Salt Lake City-based professional services firm with 85 team members. Prior to merging his practice with Tanner, he co-founded Proficio Services Group to provide strategic & business planning, leadership development, and business coaching services. Dan is a graduate of the 2010 AICPA Leadership Academy and in 2011-2012 served as the chair of the Young CPA Network Committee for the AICPA. Dan has also been very active with the UACPA and in 2011 was recognized as the Outstanding CPA in Business and Management. He was recently selected to serve as Utahs elected member of the AICPA Governing Council. Dan is an avid flyfisher, backpacker, and gardener. He and his wife Bibiana just welcomed their fourth child to the family.

Contact Dan at: [email protected] Or connect with him on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/dangriffithscpa