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The Big Picture of Business – Visioning Scope: Applying Vision Toward Your Organization’s Progress

Strategy Driven

I ask clients to do so without using the words: ‘technology,’ ‘sales,’ and ‘solutions.’ Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics. Keep the vision grounded in reality through benchmarked measurements. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

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The Cost of Low Performers

Sales Wolf Blog

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” link] mikemyatt Leave it to Michael McKinney to get right at the heart of the issue by addressing root-level motivation – "it benefits the labeler more than the label-ee." Thanks for sharing the amazing quote Ken.

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A Social Sanity Manifesto for 2012

Harvard Business Review

Our stress is compounded by each new performance metric that we're told to track and optimize, but social networking companies keep adding more, because they know each new target motivates us to do the job of growing their networks for them. I will set my own benchmarks. I will not click on any score-based meme. Of course not.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? How effectively has the company adapted its legacy business to change and disruption, giving it new life? Financial performance.

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Managing People Effectively - Are You Mismanaging Talent?

Sales Wolf Blog

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

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The Big Picture of Business: Lessons About Business Planning To Be Learned from the Y2K Bug

Strategy Driven

Technology constitutes less than 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture. This approach costs six times that of doing things correctly on the front end… meaning planning, sequential execution and benchmarking progress. Cleaning Up Problems.