Sat.Mar 12, 2011 - Fri.Mar 18, 2011

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Radical Recovery Tools

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How to survive and thrive in a down economy. You can’t turn on a television, open a paper or read a news feed today without hearing more depressing news about the economy. The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. How will this economic crisis play out?

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

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The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi. The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them uni

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 58 – An Interview with Steve Boehlke, author of 50 Lessons on Leading

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StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Special Edition 58 – An Interview with Steve Boehlke, author of 50 Lessons on Leading introduces a method of self-reflection and growth that individuals can use to become better leaders and to f

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Management Would be Easy if You Didn’t Have to Deal with People, part 2 of 3

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Goals and Boundaries. We’re going to use some diagrams to show you how this all works. In all of the diagrams, we use a target as a symbol for the goals of the position and an ‘X’ as a symbol for the starting place of the person in that position (they are about to begin to achieve their goals). Figure 1: Manager’s Route to a Goal. Manager’s route to a goal.

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Alternative Selection Best Practice 1 – Common Assumptions and Variables

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Alternative selection requires choices to be made between competing initiatives. Such choices necessitate a common comparative basis on which the value of each initiative is judged. Key to achieving this state is the application of common market and organizational assumptions and variables from which each initiative’s value is calculated. Without this commonality, initiative owners would likely apply assumptions favoring their initiative’s value calculation and thus diminish the leadership team’

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StrategyDriven Available on LeadershipDigital

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StrategyDriven is honored to have our non-subscriber content included on LeadershipDigital , a topic hub that collects and organizes the best business and leadership articles on the web in order to advantage its audience of executives and managers. Topic Hubs are sites that aggregate content from a variety of sources, organize that content around keywords in the topic domain, and support both manual and social curation of the content.

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Leadership Inspirations – Accuracy

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“It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.&#. Carveth Read (1848 – 1931). 19th and 20th century British philosopher and logician. Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at the University College London.