• A good plan is half the battle. My training materials on strategies for hundreds of municipalities

    • 14 June 2025
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
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    They say that a good plan is half the battle. And a bad one? I would say that it is the beginning of failure. A bad plan, instead of leading to the right goal, leads to wasting human energy, time, money, lost opportunities, defeats in competition and even disasters.

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  • In the Scientific Council of the Integrated Railway Network – Poland’s strategic project of CPK, PKP, IRMiR and the Ministry of Infrastructure

    • 12 May 2025
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
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    I have been appointed to the Scientific Council of the Integrated Railway Network Project (#ZSK).

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  • Leaders develop leaders: My students meet the best strategic decision-makers.

    • 25 April 2025
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    • Category: Research, teaching and scientific publications
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    In educating future local government leaders, it is important to provide them with reliable knowledge, show what and how it can be achieved using it, and then practice its application together. However, it is equally important to get to know them with contemporary leaders, show their commitment, strategic thinking and their ambitions in developing cities and villages. This is necessary for them to believe that it is possible and worth living all this.

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  • Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Strategic successes through good vision and persistence.

    • 10 March 2025
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
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    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt once said, and although not all the famous sayings of US presidents are inspiring, especially today, this one is worth remembering and thinking about.

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  • When Polish AI for self-governemnts? Training on strategy for the authorities of the Czernica Commune.

    • 31 January 2025
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    • Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
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    Recently, while conducting training on development strategies for authorities and top management of the Czernica Commune Office, I presented my prototype AI model based on GPT-4o supporting strategic governance of the development of cities/communes.

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  • Cpmmune development strategy created and implemented using Artificial Intelligence. The future is here.

    • 11 November 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
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    I am training my artificial intelligence model based on GPT-4o, whose task will be to advise municipal/city authorities in making strategic decisions.

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  • What does cost say about success? Lectures on strategy evaluation at the University of Malta and the University of Madeira.

    • 4 November 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Lectures at foreign universities
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    Some municipal leaders (and not only them), when talking about implemented investments and other projects, often emphasize how much they cost or will cost, and ignore other aspects.

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  • Window Tilting Strategy: breathe, but skillfully, like in Câmara de Lobos in Madeira.

    • 17 October 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Traveling in search of local development and inspirations for local & regional governments
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    An interview with Leonel Correia da Silva, Mayor of Câmara de Lobos, one of the municipalities of Madeira, made me realize that the rapid influx of tourist traffic&investment can be a challenge even on remote, oceanic islands, as long as they are attractive to the world and sufficiently connected to it.

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  • Strategy of Values: By training the authorities on strategy I learn their development concepts. Today in Pielgrzymka Commune.

    • 22 September 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
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    This time I trained in strategy the authorities and top management of the Pielgrzymka Commune. Welcoming, committed people, with whom I enjoyed working. And we had a good laugh at some examples from local government life 🙂 And how is development created here?

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  • Mission: DEVELOPMENT. Another training on strategy – this time for the authorities of the Pakosc Commune.

    • 30 August 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
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    Training on the construction and implementation of the development strategy of communes, i.e. on the strategic governence of the development of communes, is the most important training for their authorities.

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