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Kia ora. It’s Ben M. Bartlett here and I am writing to you from the awesome country of New Zealand.
What is Kia ora? It’s a greeting from the indigenous people of New Zealand known as the Maori. And it simply means hello or welcome.
As you may know, New Zealand is a developed country of 5 million people located near the bottom of the world.
Here in New Zealand we’re famous for sheep, beautifully picturesque landscapes, the Lord of the Rings movies, the All Blacks rugby team…and that on a per capita basis, we are one of the world’s best sporting nations.
We also have a reputation as being really friendly, down-to-earth and helpful people.
Today I want to help you.
How so?
I’d like to invite you to subscribe to the Strategic Lessons newsletter. It’s free. What’s more, when you subscribe you’ll also get a free preview copy of The Strategy Book.
What is Strategic Lessons?
Sent to your email inbox once a week, Strategic Lessons is a newsletter about strategic mastery. More to the point, it’s a free newsletter that helps you to get all yout shit together.
Strategic mastery? Strategic mastery simply means having mastery over and achieving high-levels of success in the most important areas of life. Which are? Skill set competence, health and fitness, home success, relationships, business/career and finances.
Strategic Lessons shares important strategic mastery lessons delivered in a unique, no B.S style. No corporate diarrhea. No academic airy-fairy theory. No motivational mumbo jumbo. No PC nonsense. So if you are into diarrhea, pie in the sky theory, mumbo jumbo or PC silliness then do not subscribe. Otherwise you will be grossly offended.
Again, Strategic Lessons is free, and is delivered to your email inbox once a week.
In your subscription you’ll also be introduced to our other educational offerings, as well as our strategy consulting and leadership coaching services.
Introducing The Strategic Mastery Framework
The overarching framework for our work is The Strategic Mastery Framework, which incorporates the key principles, strategy models, tools and skill sets we help clients to develop.
As the visual illustrates, the heart of the framework is advanced strategic thinking, which we apply to skill areas including:
- 12 Rules of Strategy
- 5 Mode Health and Fitness
- The Leadership Skill Set
- Philosophy Design and Build
Our services apply the framework outlined above. And it’s also the subject framework for the Strategic Lessons. In other words, each issue of the Strategic Lessons will feature a topic from one of the above system modules.
And my qualifications?
First and foremost, I am a master strategist, which is best defined as someone qualified and skilled in analyzing and developing strategy. So in a nutshell, I help business leaders to solve their biggest problems with good strategy.
In terms of academic background, I attended my first strategic planning course in 1994. And, my qualifications include an MBA (“A” grade average), specializing in strategic thinking.
As well as serving as a strategist, I am a strategic advisor and coach to CEOs, high performing business owners and team members, helping them to improve strategic performance and to get their shit together.
To assist clients, my work is provided via a portfolio of services that help clients to excel at strategic management.
Clients include senior executives at large organisations such as Marley, Red Cross, AIG and Honda…managing directors, boards and team members of multi-million dollar a year privately owned companies, government department leaders, and the owners of small businesses.
My work has been recognised and featured at industry conferences in both New Zealand and Australia, and has been the subject of legal action taken against others who have stolen my – and my clients’ – intellectual property. I’ve helped firms in a range of sectors including investment advisory, accounting, fast moving consumer goods, building and construction, food manufacturing, insurance and wellness.
Alongside my work with business leaders is the role I perform as a fitness/sports coach and life skills mentor, working with youth. This role is a passion that I’ve been dedicated to for more than 30 years. My business career is my career. My youth work is my calling. And the two work perfectly together.
What is my youth coaching work all about? It’s about helping youth to apply strategy principles to excel in all areas of their lives, such as education, vocation and physical and mental wellbeing. You see, when you master strategy you can master life. And that’s the message I drive into the youth that I coach.
My biggest qualification?
Listen up. I didn’t have the flashest upbringing. Born a poor Maori boy in the small city of Gisborne, New Zealand. And surrounded by a dysfunctional environment that included alcohol abuse, drugs, crime and financial hardship.
But, when I reached my late teens I realised that the responsibility for getting my shit together lay firmly on my shoulders. And I discovered that the key to success was learning how to plan and execute strategy.
Long story short. I did get my shit together. And now it’s me telling high falutin’ CEOs and business leaders how to get all their shit together.
A warning
Yes, when you master the strategic skills, you can master life. And the Strategic Lessons newsletter is all about helping you to master strategic skills. But here’s a warning.
Because Strategic Lessons is only for serious business leaders, I expect readers to read the lessons. I expect them to study and learn. And those who don’t read lessons are removed from the email list. Why is that? My view is that those who can’t be bothered reading the Strategic Lessons newsletter are just not serious enough about studying the art and science of strategy.
My policy for those who are removed is just as strict. They cannot re-subscribe.
On that basis then, if you qualify and understand the conditions, then you need to subscribe.
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When you subscribe to Strategic Lessons your learning process will start with a free PDF preview copy of The Strategy Book.
The full edition of The Strategy Book is only available in paper and ink form. And at more than $1,000 a copy, it is not cheap.
In this free preview PDF copy of The Strategy Book you will learn:
- The Pictures That are Worth a Thousand Success Words
- What is Strategy?
- What are tactics?
- Your Most Valuable Investment Asset
- The Triumph and Failure of Strategy Execution
- The core tasks of the CEO
- The #1 Leadership Skill
- The Most Valuable Assets in a Business
- The engine that powers business strategy
- The 7 Ladders of Leadership
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