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Thoughts on the Presidency

Leading Blog

But then as now, there is no greater attribute for a ruler than humility built on an accurate assessment of his own limits, from which the finest cunning emerges.” — Robert Kaplan, Warrior Politics. “In Newt Gingrich, 2011. You can’t just appoint smart people.”

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Seasoned Leaders Have Balance

Great Leadership By Dan

Results and Process Some leaders only focus on results. Results are important but so is process—how things are done. However, putting all your attention on process is also wrong. Bibliography Kaplan, R.E. Harvard Business Review Press, 2011. In meeting after meeting they ask, “What’s the bottom line?”

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How to Give a Briefing that Impresses the Boss

Strategy Driven

Here’s a five-step process you can use for a meeting, an email message or a stopped-in-the-hallway request for an update. This process will help you make it obvious to the boss that you’re on top of the project. Other Uses of the Process. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

This framework shares some elements with the balanced scorecard concept that was introduced in a seminal 1992 Harvard Business Review article, The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance , by Robert Kaplan and David Norton. Copyright (c) 2011. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. About the Authors.

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BIF-6 Summed Up: Optimism-Hope-Trust-Innovation

Mills Scofield

I'm still trying to process the last week; a wonderfully relaxing and productive (not an oxymoron) sabbatical on the dock in Maine, a day at Brown with terrific kids (I'm ready to go back) and BIF-6. FYI, Saul, 2011 Rosh Hashanah is late, 9/28, we're ok) The entire conference was summed up for me around 4pm on day [.].

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Here's Why Successful Presentations Planning Must Begin with an.

Strategy Driven

Sometimes you can infer the way someone will process the information based on his or her job function. The thought process of HR professionals often will focus on people, while the accountants may focus more on quantitative information – the what , as opposed to the who. a K-12 education publisher focusing on mathematics.

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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