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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans. This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process.

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Three Buckets of Courage

QAspire

In my career of 25+ years, I had several moments that required me to exhibit courage. I was a functional head in year 2008 when my growth had plateaued. I went back to my boss with a detailed business plan to set up a Quality Consulting unit as an independent business unit. There is no growth without courage.

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Free Individual Development Plan (IDP) Template

Great Leadership By Dan

The most popular post on this blog continues to be one of my first posts written in 2008 called How to Write a Great Individual Development Plan (IDP). Development Actions: This section is the heart of the development plan. In one of the earlier versions of that post I had offered to send readers an IDP template.

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The Magical Career Fairy Will Help You

Persuasive Powerhouse

Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. She doesn’t exist, and career rewards for your great work don’t just appear.

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Your 401(k) Plan

Coaching Tip

Employers are under no obligation to make matching contributions to 401(k) plans, as they usually are with traditional pension plans, and can alter the terms without seeking government approval. A difference of 3% points on a matching contribution can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of a career.

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Quality of Planning = Quality of Execution: 7 Lessons

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Quality of Planning = Quality of Execution: 7 Lessons When a project is executed, a plan is established. But the core point is missed – and that is quality of the planning itself. Unfortunately, we invest very little effort in verifying the quality of the plan itself. (In

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Business Model Architecture | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case.