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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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The January Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2011 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

This month's edition is a special "Best of 2011" collection of leadership development blog posts from many of our regular Carnival contributors. Tim Vanderpyl, The LeaderLab (submitted by David Burkus): Save a Tree, Stop Strategic Planning. Reason: "This was our most read piece of original content published in 2011".

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10 Tips For Holiday Party Etiquette. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

If you have to talk business (taking cues from your boss), talk about what the company accomplished and what could be planned for 2011. This is a time to test and hone your connecting, social, and political skills. You need to show people that you can move within social (who you know) and political (who knows you) circles.

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Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • September 12, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. You’d think a company drilling on the ocean’s floor would be adept in risk management planning. September 13, 2011 at 3:27 am. September 13, 2011 at 10:30 pm. September 14, 2011 at 4:10 am. December 2011.

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What goes into our strategic plan

CO2

When your strategy is so ingrained into the culture do you still need to list it as a strategy in your strategic plan ? When your strategy is so ingrained into the culture do you still need to list it as a strategy in your strategic plan ? This post will put some light on this question or it may create more thinking than answers.

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Strategic Planning – Motivation 2.0

CO2

Recently, when working with clients to bring the strategic planning process out of the board room and into mail room, we brought to life Motivation 2.0. Every company can implement strategic planning by involving all or many employees at every level. You will find it is not all good news for the planning process.

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Strategic Planning – Words are Important : Blog | Executive.

CO2

“A word is dead when it is said some say, I say it just begins to live that day&# – Emily Dickinson When you work on a strategic plan – even if you keep them as short as we do at CO2 Partners , to one page, each word you choose is so critical. Why does this matter? Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?