Global Commons Research Group

Your opponents may be coming back at you. Are you prepared? A classic planning mistake by strategists is the belief that the opponent will hit at the protagonist with all of the force which the protagonist has practiced at countering, and not with all the force that the opponent actually can muster. You may think you are prepared if your leadership has dealt with hypothetical cases of problems needing to be solved, but if they are surprised by the onslaught in an actual case, then hypotheticals may be misleading. Your opponents may counter your strategy by coming at you with much more heat than what you are prepared to defend yourself from. The Global Commons Research Group (GCRG), in its leadership simulations, provides cases where not just one problem event, but several escalating events, are included in the simulation. In real life, you will not have the luxury of resolving upcoming crisis situations for your company one at a time—they must be dealt with simultaneously, in real time, and never on the assumption that “this is the worst it can get.” Excessive pessimism is not counselled here—neither, however, is excessive optimism! The GCRG can help you prepare even for extreme situations. At the GCRG’s campaign landing page (https://lnkd.in/drZdJRBZ), you can see what is vouched for us, and you can submit your e-mail address to me there. You will hear from me within 48 hours of contact. Be prepared for the counteroffensive—prepare with the GCRG!

Does your plan fit the actual situation? Tailor your response with the GCRG! Strategies may encourage a focus on “one size fits all”-recommendations, which do not take into account situations and contexts to which the recommendations do not translate. One example of this was taken up by three-star general Daniel P. Bolger in his book Why We Lost, who argues that four-star general David Petraeus overgeneralized his plans in believing that the same strategies would work for the ISAF in Afghanistan as those which had worked for US forces in Iraq. If you suspect that you are following standardized action plans in situations which are anything but standardized, get in touch with the GCRG for a free initial consultation on how to assess differing situations differently. At our landing page (https://lnkd.in/drZdJRBZ), you can learn more about our track record, and submit your e-mail address to me there. You will hear from me within 48 hours of contact. Make sure your strategy rests on solid ground—strengthen your approach with the GCRG!

Next stop, online training: Another new contract for the GCRG On August 9th of 2024, my company, the Global Commons Research Group (GCRG), signed on to subcontract for Academy Online, Europe’s leading provider of digitalized occupational training courses. Academy Online has been active since 2014 and had a turnover of 9,4 million SEK in 2023. In effect, this contract is the first of its kind for GCRG, and constitutes the founding event for the company’s education division. My responsibilities will include Finnish-language conversion of online Swedish-language courses to certify behavioral scientists, personnel managers, business economists and HR business partners, with more courses to follow (including an envisioned self-created stand-alone course in higher organizational theory and practice). I am looking forward to cooperating with Academy Online! #education #training

Dare to challenge yourself—get help from the GCRG! One bane for those crafting and implementing company strategies is overconfidence. Strategies can create a false sense of surety in planners’ mastery of a situation. If planners rest too much in that surety, they may not venture into the field to collect facts inconvenient for the strategy. Do you believe that it is time to stress-test your present company strategy in the light of new unsettling facts? The Global Commons Research Group (GCRG) applies decades of empirical fact-gathering experience crucial to searching analyses. Know which facts not only support your strategy, but also those facts which contravene it—if you hew to the tried and true, then do so on the basis of the balanced factual assessments which the GCRG can offer. If you are ready to critically examine your previous assumptions, get in touch with the GCRG for a free initial consultation. At the GCRG’s campaign landing page (https://lnkd.in/drZdJRBZ), you can get a succinct statement of the principles which will help you, and submit your e-mail address to me there. You will hear from me within 48 hours of contact. Make sure your strategy rests on solid ground—strengthen your approach with the GCRG!

Using yesterday’s tools on today’s problems? Recalibrate with the GCRG! Strategies are certainly all well and good—it is better to have one than not to have one! We will become lost in friction, in the fog of war, if we go into chaotic situations without even a plan as to how to deal with it. Yet one of the many backsides of a strategy lies in that it can sometimes damage planners’ ability to see when the strategy has outlived its usefulness. Holding on to an already adopted strategy helps little if the entire game has changed. To avoid this quandary, you must be ready to update your strategy at regular intervals. The master recommendation is thus to be merciless at continued revision of one’s strategy, and to always choose reality over the map if the map has become faulty. The Global Commons Research Group (GCRG) has taken upon itself to thoroughly retool the business plans we have been asked to write, using existing drafts as springboards to look forward instead of back. If you believe that your present company strategy needs an overhaul, you deserve help from the best. At the GCRG’s campaign landing page (https://lnkd.in/drZdJRBZ), you can get an overview of the company’s offerings and testimonials on its owner’s effectiveness. You can submit your e-mail address to me there—the initial consultation can be scheduled and prepared within 48 hours of contact. Refurbish your strategy to stay also in a changed ground game—move forward with the GCRG! #strategy

Are you thinking too hard? Regain operative confidence! Let’s be blunt—instead of being nonexistent, an adopted strategy for a company’s operations may also have the opposite problem of being overwrought! Strategies are often over-rationalized. No action plan can depart from assumptions that the planners know everything relevant to their planned operations, or that it includes solutions for every potential problem. If you believe that your planners actually may have too much information and be thinking too hard, a good organizational consultant can also help you scale down and focus on essentials. The Global Commons Research Group (GCRG) keeps the business plans it authors as simple as is operationally feasible—ten pages or so is enough, and it has to possible to summarize the plan in just one page. If you feel lost in a quagmire of facts, get help in getting unstuck! At the GCRG’s campaign landing page (https://lnkd.in/drZdJRBZ), you can get an overview of offerings and testimonials. You can also submit your e-mail address to me there—you will not have to wait longer than 48 hours to hear from me. Refocus on the horizon and on the prizes you seek, instead of thinking yourself to death—get help from the GCRG!

GCRG signs new communication contract Today, on August 7th of 2024, the GCRG has been signed on as one of the 500 or so subcontractors to Lingsoft in Finland. Lingsoft is a major supplier of language services and technology, active since 1986 and with a turnover of 12,7 million EUR in 2022. This contract will be the third one which involves the GCRG's strategic communication division, and considerably strengthens my company's presence mainly on the Finnish market, but also globally. I am looking forward to continued cooperation with Lingsoft!

Problems in reaching the next level? Learn how to pivot forward! Having a strategy which is actually put to work is a crucial first step. You may nonetheless find yourself struggling to reach the next level. When a strategy actually is implemented, completely new problems will arise. As stated by Helmuth von Moeltke the Elder, the first general staff chief of the Prussian army, “no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces.” If you believe you need to review your company’s strategy to take unforeseen new problems into account, get in touch with the GCRG. The first consult is always free! At the GCRG’s campaign landing page (https://lnkd.in/drZdJRBZ), you can get an overview of offerings and testimonials. You can also submit your e-mail address to me there—I will get back to you within 48 hours. Don’t continue to be stuck—move forward with the GCRG!

Make this day 1, of year 1, of breaking through to the other side! There are plenty of people who say they are living by a strategy for their company. But talking the talk isn’t walking the walk. A strategy which is rarely implemented in concrete action will do nothing but take up shelf space. Do you want to adopt a strategy that you’ll actually use? The Global Commons Research Group (GCRG) can help! As the sole owner of the GCRG, I stand for surety that your strategy is grounded in a thorough organizational analysis to help you with your needs. Such an analysis can alleviate situations where both internal and external dialogues on results and quality have stagnated, where there are widely shared feelings that important problems have not been articulated clearly, and where solutions have repeatedly been put off to an unspecified future date. Know that you do not want to be in such a situation—and be ready to seek help in leaving it! The first consult is always free! At the GCRG’s campaign landing page (https://lnkd.in/drZdJRBZ), you can get an overview of offerings and testimonials. You can also submit your e-mail address to me there—I will get back to you within 48 hours. If you want to walk the walk, then walk with the GCRG!

Undertake your organization’s strategic transformation! Taking care of the projects already on your table helps. So does positioning for new projects, seeing to ongoing administration (including finances) and working on your social media presence. But true business development, taking the battle to entirely new planes of operation, also demands attention. If you only focus on the everyday, you lose sight of the multiannual calendar for changing your entire game! A strategy is only as strong as its action content. The Global Commons Research Group (GCRG) can help you craft actionable strategy as you focus on your future. The company has a track record of writing forward-looking multiyear business plans for start-ups, assisting clients with strategic communication and deepening clients’ insights into not only whether, but *why*, they are achieving their operational aims. The first consult is always free! At the GCRG’s campaign landing page (https://lnkd.in/drZdJRBZ), you can get an overview of offerings and testimonials. You can also submit your e-mail address to me there—I will get back to you within 24 hours. Whether you have a problem statement already, or whether you are still trying to concretize a sense of what the problems on hand actually might be, you will find a conversational partner who can assist you in knowing where to go with your own company, as well as why and how to do so. Visit the GCRG today, and start your journey!