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Are Strategic Plans Worth it? (the debate continues)

LDRLB

A few weeks back, Tim Vanderpyl wrote a post about strategic planning. It generated some great debate on LeaderLab and Twitter about the usefulness of strategic planning and we invited Ryan Olsen to write a response to Tim. That response is below. SP is not easy and has challenges, but the hurdles are worth overcoming.

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Are Strategic Plans Worth it? (the debate continues)

LDRLB

A few weeks back, Tim Vanderpyl wrote a post about strategic planning. It generated some great debate on LDRLB and Twitter about the usefulness of strategic planning and we invited Ryan Olsen to write a response to Tim. Strategy strategic planning strategy' That response is below. Ryan received his B.S. He can be reached here.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

The focus on employee welfare started post-World War II when retirement and pension plans appeared as the biggest forms of employer care. As such it is concerned with how to gain people’s commitment to the achievement of an organization’s business goals and objectives in a number of different situations.”

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Can You See What I See?

Lead Change Blog

Before the event, the artist goes into a type of design session where the final scene is planned out. If you remember the eras of 1987 or 2001-2002 or 2007-2008 your experience might be similar. Enlists enthusiastic engagement in the strategy and required goals to achieve the vision.

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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

” McClelland’s findings in a 1996 study showed that “when senior managers had a critical mass of Emotional Intelligence capabilities, their divisions outperformed yearly earning goals by 20%. Meanwhile, division leaders without crucial mass underperformed by almost the same amount.” The secret of organizational change is empathy.

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Team-Work Requires People To Do Their Own Work

Mike Cardus

2002 Team-Work Requires People To DO Their Own Work. This is why clear individual goals and tasks (held accountable by the manager of the person) and clear specifications of which person is to complete which specific task, with a time frame needs to be established in order to have effective team-work occur. Contact Mike.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

For example, A successful CFO is likely to have such MAPs (Motivation and Attitudinal patterns) as — strong motivation toward procedures over options; a preference for solving problems over focus on goals; and a high past time orientation that drives focus on traditions, past experience and benchmarks. Goal Orientation.