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Highlighting Our January 2017 Sponsor: Bill Treasurer

Lead Change Blog

We are elated to have the Bill Treasurer as our Lead Change Group sponsor for January 2017! Bill and Giant Leap have provided strategic planning services to corporate, non-profit, and academic research settings. ” Join the free webinar he and Marshall Goldsmith will be doing on Monday, January 16, 2017 at 1 pm ET.

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Are You Falling for the Myth of "Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail"?

Great Leadership By Dan

Gleb Tsipursky: You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” Making plans is important, but our gut reaction is to plan for the best-case outcomes, ignoring the high likelihood that things will go wrong. succeeded in meeting the original planned resource expenditure.

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How SWOT Analysis Harms Leaders

Lead Change Blog

In the context of our increasingly disrupted, globalizing, and multicultural world, leaders greatly appreciate the security and comfort of clear-cut strategic plans for the future. Tragically, popular strategic business analyses are deeply flawed and give a false sense of comfort and security to business leaders. Cognitive Bias.

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Sales by Objectives (SBO): Sales Planning

Coaching Tip

Many of you may consider sales planning as something that is forced on you from headquarters as "Filling out forms to satisfy the home office".and In many organizations, typically what happens is this.every year you are asked for your sales plan for the coming year by a certain date. But is the sales planning job compete?

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A Fresh, Fast, and Fun Way to Focus Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

How you spend January can make the difference between a breakthrough and mediocre 2017. One of the most important questions you can ask your team (or yourself) is “What will it take to make 2017 the very best year of your career?” We now build that question into the strategic planning work we do with teams.

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share How They and Their Team are Preparing for the New Year

Let's Grow Leaders

This month’s festival is all about preparing for 2017. Jon Mertz of Thin Difference tells us that preparing is more than an act of getting ready or having a fixed plan. My goal for 1Q 2017 is to decide what my extremely capable VA can do more of – so I can do less of that and more content creation, writing, and marketing.

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3 Ways to Rock Your Role in the New Year

Let's Grow Leaders

Want 2017 to be your best year ever? Ask, “What could I accomplish this year that would add real strategic value?” ” And then work with your team to establish a strategic plan for execution. What will you do to rock your role in 2017? Carol’s not alone. Rock your role.

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