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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. When he took over, Honeywell was plagued by short-termism. The problem was that he had to deliver something in the short-term to the investors for survival but had to set the company up for tomorrow too. He did both.

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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.

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Are Strategic Plans Worth it? (the debate continues)

LDRLB

In short, I would have to say that I agree and there is absolutely truth in the theory. SP is necessary, but only successful when linking the long-term strategic priorities to today’s actions. Assigning metrics and systematically measuring them fosters accountability.

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Are Strategic Plans Worth it? (the debate continues)

LDRLB

In short, I would have to say that I agree and there is absolutely truth in the theory. SP is necessary, but only successful when linking the long-term strategic priorities to today’s actions. Assigning metrics and systematically measuring them fosters accountability.

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Be More Productive Now: Mindful Strategies for Increasing Performance

Strategy Driven

In fact, if you take a close look at the data, it’s amazing how bad many of us in business are at utilizing our time and staying focused on our goals. The consequence is we tend to focus on short term outcomes and lose sight of larger goals and objectives. As it turns out, we’re actually addicted to the action itself.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Here's the short version: "A person can't be best friends with 2,000 people. link] Allan W. link] Allan W.

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Why Do Corporations Need A Single Purpose?

Harvard Business Review

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. Was your only goal to minimize time spent (in which case you skipped lunch) or to maximize time spent (in which case you are still eating)?