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The 4 Disciplines of Execution: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster (2012) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” ” That is perhaps what [.].

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Guardrails: Keep Your Projects Out of the Weeds

Strategy Driven

The Zigzag Principle : The Goal Setting Strategy that will Revolutionize Your Business and Your Life by Rich Christiansen Have you ever set your sights on the top of a mountain and then started your ascent by heading straight through the trees and up the sheer cliffs? Replicating your successes to bring your product to the masses.

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Measuring the ROI of social media? There’s a laugh, and a joke.

Strategy Driven

Social media, business social media, is running wild – with or without you. Map out a strategy, and goals for engagement, for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. TOTAL JOKE. And a bad one at that. And I am not just talking to companies – I am talking to YOU – the individual.

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London Succeeds in Its Olympic Trials

Harvard Business Review

We stand today on July 27, one year away from the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. London was announced as host city on July 6, 2005 to wild celebrations. Despite this, the 2012 Oympic Games has become a critical component for it. Challenge your team to align and share goals. Contingency budgets are $1.4

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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How to Unleash Possibility in 2015

Management Craft

What’s your goal? To generate breakthroughs: Define goals that inspire you and share them broadly. Take forward action in support of goals. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. Don''t let being off course become a source of power pulling you away from your goal, see it for what it is.

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How to Unleash Possibility in 2015

Management Craft

What’s your goal? To generate breakthroughs: Define goals that inspire you and share them broadly. Take forward action in support of goals. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. Don't let being off course become a source of power pulling you away from your goal, see it for what it is.

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