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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

They present analytical frameworks and tools to foster an organization's ability to systematically create and capture "blue oceans"—unexplored new market areas. This involves the commoditization of the industry where everyone is competing primarily on price — the key goals are to beat the competition and exploit existing demand.

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Determining Your Top 5 Priorities for 2014

Michael Lee Stallard

For example, within a matter of hours following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, aircraft carriers, Aegis destroyers and cruisers were in position to protect America’s shores. Here are five actions you can take to achieve focus for your organization and maximize the probability of achieving excellence in execution.

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Recognizing Habits That Undermine Goals

Coaching Tip

So, rather than teaching technical skills, Minds at Work gives managers structured exercises to help them pinpoint the ingrained habits and beliefs that are undermining their goals. The above exercise is taken from the book, " How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work " by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey (Jossey-Bass 2001). . “On

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An Overview: Agile and Enterprise Architecture

Strategy Driven

It goes beyond the simple process because it encompasses a way of understanding how our work, our organization, our way of interacting and responding to stakeholders has changed. Many large multinationals already have it integrated and it is part of their culture, and more and more organizations are doing the same. Agile origin.

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Preview Thursday: No Ego by Cy Wakeman

Lead Change Blog

After several years as a family therapist, I got a promotion in my organization. I hustled down to the gift shop at the health center where I worked and bought a doorstop to make a visible and decorative point: I’d have the most outstanding open door in the organization. In 2001, she founded Reality-Based Leadership. they asked.

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Accelerate Your Growth through Agile HR Practices

HR Digest

Change is the only constant and agile HR appears to be the next evolutionary stage of human resources in an organization. The Agile Manifesto written by a collection of 17 bright minds in 2001 , gave rise to a collection of values to guide software development in an agile, adaptive manner.

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Se7en Deadly Sins Blog Post Series: Sin #4 Detachment

leaderCommunicator

Leadership is personal, but in their focus on business goals, leaders often detach themselves from the human element of the workplace, thereby failing to show they care about their team members. Harvard Business Review, “Followership: It’s Personal, Too,” (2001). It sounds so simple. Is Detachment a sin you’re guilty of?

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