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Winning Now, Winning Later: Playing the Infinite Game

Leading Blog

W HEN David Cote became CEO of Honeywell in February of 2002, the company was a train wreck. Short- and long-term goals were more tightly intertwined than they appeared. The process begins by defining reality and banishing intellectual laziness. It is a process. When he took over, Honeywell was plagued by short-termism.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

Gennard and Judge (2002) state, “Employee relations is a study of the rules, regulations, and agreements by which employees are managed both as individuals and as a collective group, the priority given to the individual as opposed to the collective relationship varying from company to company depending upon the values of management.

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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Cisco studied which characteristics of leaders on collaborative teams are most important, and we found that the most critical attribute was a leader's willingness to follow through on commitments. Tell people your style and thought process for navigating tricky, or even every day, decisions. This involves two elements.

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Are Strategic Plans Worth it? (the debate continues)

LDRLB

I think we could agree though, when Strategic Planning (SP) is done right (development process, implementation, and execution) then there is great potential. At M3 Planning, we have measured the following; “Businesses reporting a commitment to strategic planning showed a 12% bottom line and 11% top line greater than other respondents.

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Systemically Non-Systemic: COVID-19 through the Deming Lens

Deming Institute

She goes on to write, “In quantum physics, a homologous process is described as relational holism, where whole systems are created by the relationships among subatomic particles” (p. Goldratt describes a constraint as “the limiting factor that prevents a system from moving closer to achieving its goal.” Nor am I an epidemiologist.

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Are Strategic Plans Worth it? (the debate continues)

LDRLB

I think we could agree though, when Strategic Planning (SP) is done right (development process, implementation, and execution) then there is great potential. At M3 Planning, we have measured the following; “Businesses reporting a commitment to strategic planning showed a 12% bottom line and 11% top line greater than other respondents.

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3 Popular Goal-Setting Techniques Managers Should Avoid

Harvard Business Review

In 2002, professors Edwin A. Latham, two of the best known academic researchers on goal-setting, wrote an article in American Psychologist summarizing their 35 years of research. Among their findings: Setting specific, difficult goals consistently leads to higher performance than just urging people to do their best. SMART Goals.

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