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Strategic Leadership: The 10 Characteristics of a Good Leader

Ten traits. One that actually predicts whether your strategy gets executed. What 20,582 plans reveal.

Ted Jackson
Ted Jackson
Co-Founder & Alabama Native
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Strategy Evaluation: A 6-Step Process (and Why 9 of 10 Goals Never Get Evaluated)

July 6, 2026
Only about 1 in 10 goals ever gets a status. Here's a practical 6-step strategy evaluation process, and the data on why most evaluations quietly die.
Ted Jackson
Ted Jackson

How to Create a Gantt Chart That Actually Gets Finished

July 6, 2026
Most Gantt charts never finish. Only 14% of projects do. Here's how to build one that survives, backed by data from 20,582 strategic plans.
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Dylan Miyake
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OKRs Meaning: What 20,582 Strategic Plans Reveal About Objectives and Key Results

July 2, 2026
OKRs are easy to write and easy to abandon. Across 20,582 plans, 77% of objectives have no owner. Here's the data on making OKRs actually run.
Ted Jackson
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Joseph LuccoStrategy Execution 101: How to Transition From Plans to Execution

Strategy Execution 101: How to Transition From Plans to Execution

Only 5.2% of organizations finish 75%+ of their strategic projects. ClearPoint analyzed 20,582 plans to find out why most stall — and what the best 5% do differently.

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How To Perform A Gap Analysis In Healthcare

Learn how to perform a gap analysis in healthcare. Identify where your organization stands and the steps needed to reach your strategic goals.

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PESTEL Analysis in Healthcare: The 6 Forces — and the Ownership Gap That Follows

PESTEL surfaces the forces reshaping healthcare. The hard part is next: 89% of healthcare strategic objectives have no owner. Here's how to close the gap.

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A good chart captures the essence of a metric — but 22% have nothing to compare against. The 15 charts that matter, and what to put behind them.

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ClearPoint vs. Cascade, Asana, monday.com, Quantive and WorkBoard: 2026 pricing, features, and which fits government, healthcare, and utilities.

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An honest 2026 comparison of project tracking software for local governments: ClearPoint, Envisio, OpenGov, AchieveIt, Smartsheet, Asana, Cascade.

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Florida's Property Tax Cut: How Local Governments Absorb an $8.4 Billion Hit

Florida's HJR 1F could cut $8.4B a year from local budgets starting 2027. The governments that structure their strategy now will cut on purpose, not blind.

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Education KPIs: We Tracked 6,967 of Them. Most Don't Survive the Year.

Schools don't fail at picking KPIs. They fail at keeping them. What 6,967 real education KPIs reveal about the ones that last.

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Bridging the Gaps in Institutional Plans: What 20,712 Plan Elements Show

We measured 20,712 elements of real institutional plans. The five gaps that actually stall them aren't where the textbooks point — and the biggest one is a blank field.

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