Our Approach

THE HORIZON WAY … THE ART OF ACTIVE, VALUES-BASED LEADERSHIP, STRATEGIC PLANNING, AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT

The Horizon Way: Our Approach to Strategy Planning, Leader Education, and Talent Development

The Horizon Way is many parts, and ONE whole at the same time:

The Horizon Way (model, methodology)
The Horizon Ends (outcomes and value promised)
The Horizon Means (business model, how the organization will attract and keep talent, beat their margins, and grow, without a drop off in quality)
The Horizon Why (you recognized a problem in the market, a gap, demand for something you uniquely have)

Together, these strategic pillars define THE HORIZON WAY, which is simply all about Who we are, and the Techniques we bring to bear in helping our clients “Aim for (and reach) Their Horizon!”.

The “aim” of The Horizon Way is one of helping our clients achieve the long-term goals for their organizations and to help them add coherency to what they do, how, and why.

Our proprietary “Way” has core elements that work together to create a holistic strategy planning, development, and advisory client-centric Service:

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Comprehensive, leader-driven, strategy development that afford clients broader, deeper impacts and more options

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Elite, project management built on: Operational Excellence, Customer Intimacy, Product Leadership that provide us leverage and additional means

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Our PROPRIETARY three-stage dynamic planning-advisory-service delivery model for employing The Horizon Way: A-I-M

From Battlefields to Boardrooms, we align leadership, strategy, and people to achieve desired outcomes through the application of timeless principles and proven methods.

The Horizon Way: Lessons on Leading Through Transitions

Our VP for Academic Services, Dr. Isaiah Wilson III, is spearheading a project aimed at documenting our unique approach and delivery model. The book, The Horizon Way: Lessons on Leading Through Transitions, explains how our proprietary “Way” enables success from the Battlefield to the Boardroom. Meet the team of authors working on “The Horizon Way” project.

“This book offers ways to overcome and overmatch the challenges of transitions and explains the underlying variables that enable individual and organizational innovation and adaptation. Like John Boyd’s pioneering decision-making model, the OODA Loop – Observe, Orient, Decide, Act – that enables individuals and organizations to gain advantage over an opponent’s decision-cycle, we argue that organizational innovation and adaptation require a comprehensive strategic theory of organizational learning that enables foresight, aligns objectives, ideas, and resources, and institutionalizes a continuous cycle of learning to adapt and succeed through transitions. But where Boyd and others explain how to direct one's energies to defeat an adversary and survive in combat, we offer an approach that aligns leadership, strategy, and people to achieve desired outcomes through the application of timeless principles and proven methods; principles as applicable to the boardrooms and the negotiating tables, as they are to the battlefields.”

excerpt from the book, The Horizon Way: Lessons on Leading Through Transitions, Chapter 1, Introduction.