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Execution - Getting The Right Things Done Right

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From the archives comes an article, " It All Comes Down To Execution ," by Mike Wagner. "Execution is the discipline of getting things done.". According to Mike: "Execution is a great unaddressed issue in the business world today. Its absence is the big obstacle to success and the cause of many disappointments that are mistakenly attributed to other causes.

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A Business Improvement Book With a Lasting Difference

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OK.so you’ve read Good to Great , Built to Last , E-Myth , 7 Habits , Getting Things Done …and probably dozens (if not hundreds?) of other best-selling business books over the years. So… why hasn’t your organization’s performance changed ? What’s missing? Most importantly, why doesn't the change last ? There’s no doubt: business leaders “love” top-selling business books.

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The 12 Forgotten Ways To Innovate

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Faced with the prospects of slow growth, commoditization and global competition, companies like GE, Microsoft, and Google are now ramping up their emphasis on innovation as critical to their future success. But what exactly is innovation? Although the subject of innovation has risen to the top of the CEO agenda, many companies have a mistakenly narrow view of it.

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Eight Rules To Brilliant Brainstorming

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Bloomberg BusinessWeek brings us " Eight Rules To Brilliant Brainstorming ". Use brainstorming to combine and extend ideas, not just harvest them. Don't bother if people live in fear. Do individual brainstorming before and after group sessions. Brainstorming sessions are worthless unless ideas lead to action. Brainstorming requires skill and experience both to do - and especially - to facilitate.

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Your Stop List - Deciding What NOT To Do

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According the Harvard strategy expert, Michael Porter: "The essence of strategy is deciding what NOT to do.". And, according to management guru Peter Drucker: “Half the leaders that I have met don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.” Effective strategy execution requires that the resources of the organization are aligned to its purpose.Unless your priorities are clear enough that you know what not to do, or what not to allocate resources to, you don't y

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Things Leaders Do - Leadership Lessons For The Small Business CEO

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When GE's CEO Jeff Immelt (recently tapped by President Barack Obama as his next top outside economic adviser) teaches up-and-coming leaders at the company's famed management-development center, he runs through a checklist of what he calls " Things Leaders Do.". In this interview with Fast Company, Immelt reveals his own leadership Top 10 checklist. 1.

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