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It’s Planning TIME! It Can be Great

Mike Cardus

Strategic Planning is a necessary evil and can be very effective or very defective. This is why you need someone who can facilitate and control the process of the planning meeting. End of the year and my calendar is filling with Strategic Planning Facilitation and meetings. Contact Mike , he makes that happen.

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Continuous Improvement Programs Offer Competitive Advantages On Key Financial Metrics

Six Disciplines

Nearly half of respondents with no continuous improvement program anticipate operating income growth of 3% or less in 2012, compared to less than half that percent from firms with continuous improvement programs.

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The January Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2011 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Happy New Year, and welcome to the January, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival! Tim Vanderpyl, The LeaderLab (submitted by David Burkus): Save a Tree, Stop Strategic Planning. Nick McCormick, Joe and Wanda on Management : Are Your Goals HARD? It's especially appropriate for this time of year as it is on goal setting.".

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The Four Cornerstones of a High Performance Culture, part 4

Strategy Driven

Strategic planning creates the platform for a healthy company. Strategic planning is a critical part of growing a successful business. A high performance work culture needs a system that makes sure that employee goals are aligned and everyone is focused on the right stuff. Consider leaving a comment!

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In Planning Why Does the By-When Matter?

Mike Cardus

Planning requires the boundaries of Goals ‘what-by-when’. Thematic Goal. Re-work our employee appraisal system (what) for test usage and adjustment in the last quarter of 2012. The subordinates would be taking on smaller parts of the longer term (1 year) goal. The ‘what’ being what is going to be done for example.

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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

Slate also recently published a map of where to watch for burgeoning startup communities, including Austin, Boston and even Detroit, and Cincinnati was named the number one place for startups to thrive by CNN Money in 2012. Relate Articles: Strategic Planning Best Practice 4 – Ongoing Planning and Execution.

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Complimentary Resource – The Road to BI Success

Strategy Driven

As more incremental projects are undertaken, it will be important to execute these projects within the long-term strategic plan of organization-wide decision management. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Complimentary Resource – Driving Success: The Incredible Power of Company-wide Goal Alignment.