Stephen E. Roulac, Phd
Stephen E. Roulac, Ph.D., a leading authority on the economic productivity and strategic importance of the places in which we live and work, is author of some 20 favorably reviewed books, plus over 400 articles, reviews, and columns appearing in publications in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas, including Barrons and Forbes.
A respected cultural visionary, Dr. Roulac has achieved a high standard of excellence in and made significant contributions to entrepreneurial ventures, business management, economic policy and analysis, real estate, investing, strategy, teaching, writing, publishing, and professional speaking.
Retained by both governments and highly successful companies, entrepreneurs, and investors throughout the world, Dr. Roulac and his firm have worked in 20+ countries, and have evaluated and invested in more than 100 countries, creating billions of dollars of value for their clients.
“There is nobody righter or brighter and no one more intellectually pure in his approach to real estate,” according to San Francisco Business.
Currently, Professor of Global Property Strategy at the University of Ulster in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Dr. Roulac created and for 10 years taught the Property Development and Investment Strategy course at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
He is the recipient of numerous awards for innovations that have transformed the property sector, as well as for his pioneering research, including the:
• James Graaskamp Award for iconoclastic thinking that advances new paradigms.
• David Ricardo Medal honoring advancing insights about how place choice is the most significant issue confronting 21st century economics.
• Richard Ratcliff Award recognizing pioneering work concerning place perspective and place strategy.
• Warner Bloomberg Award for promoting a vision of the future established on principles of social justice.
• Millennium Real Estate Award by the University of California, Berkeley, recognizing those 100 individuals who had the greatest impact upon real estate in the 20th century.
In addition to a BA from Pomona College, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard, Stanford, and University of California, Berkeley.
1 Strategic Incongruency
Strategy, to be effective, must be congruent.
If balance and consistency between different parts of the business strategy are lacking, the resulting incongruence compromises the prospects of business success. Strategy congruency means that there is a reasonable connection between one part of a strategy and another part of a strategy. The purposes of one part of the enterprise are complementary to those of another part of the enterprise. The goals of one division are supportive of, and in parallel with, the goals of another division.
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Business Plan,
Strategic Coach,
entrepreneurship,
mentorship
1 No Plan
A surprising number of companies operate with no plan.
If you operate with no plan, you are proceeding in reliance on spontaneous, reactive, and even impromptu action—rather than on the basis of deliberate, considered approaches to the business. If what is to be done is not much thought about in advance, the opportunity for reflection, consideration and choosing the best way is quite limited. Without a plan, the benefits of plans—focus on priorities, assignment of responsibilities, accountability for results—cannot be realized. Enterprises with plans achieve greater and more frequent success than those that lack them. For as it has insightfully been said, failing to plan is planning to fail.
Not having a plan is a mistake.
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Business Growth,
concepts and strategy,
Strategic Coach,
entrepreneurship,
business planning
In Lewis Carroll’s classic book, Through the Looking Glass, the Red Queen prophetically informs Alice, “You must run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place. If you want to get ahead, you must run at least twice as fast.” Today, however, even running as fast as you can will not necessarily allow you to stay in the same place. To cope with and prevail in the challenges of life today, you need an effective strategy. You need either to do what you did before—very, very well—or to do something differently.
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Topics:
concepts and strategy,
success,
entrepreneurship,
business planning
