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Management Would be Easy if You Didn’t Have to Deal with People, part 1 of 3

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We frequently remind managers, as well as aspiring managers, that management is a new career. As surely as teaching is different from accounting, management is different than the role that a person held as an employee or as a start-up entrepreneur. 6 Habits of Highly Successful Managers by John Cioffi. 6 Habits of Highly Successful Managers offers six commonsense habits that create a systematic framework useful to managers, entrepreneurs, and executives, providing them with: Clear hard-hitting c

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How to Stress-Test Your Strategy

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Robert Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, explains why management teams must ask themselves tough strategy questions. During this interview, Robert covers: obstacles business leaders face when executing their business strategy. why companies need to focus on one primary customer. the importance in choosing which among shareholders, customers, or employees are most important to the company’s success. how executives should dec

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Capabilities Driven Mergers & Acquisitions – Advantaged Capabilities, part 5 of 5

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What role do capabilities play in successful mergers? Too big to fail has proven to be a flawed notion. In Advantaged Capabilities , Booz & Company partners Gerald Adolph and Paul Leinwand conclude their discussion on the role of capabilities in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and explain why pursuing a capabilities-driven M&A strategy produces more successful companies that enjoy a right to win.

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Complimentary Resource – Winning in Today’s Environment: Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer

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Winning in Today’s Environment : Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer. by Oracle Corporation. Learn how you can deploy several best practices to achieve unparalleled sales success in your organization. To quote Charles Dickens, is it the best of times or the worst of times? Well, for leading sales executives there has never been a greater opportunity to convert their organization’s top challenges into decisive opportunities they can leverage to gain measurable competitive adva

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Leadership Inspirations – Volunteering to be the Victim

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“There are no victims, only volunteers.&#. Original Author Unknown. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. All rights reserved.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

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This is my own Big Picture full-scope analysis of the Enron debacle. It far transcends financial analysis made by other people.I have been carefully observing Enron with interest since 1984 and have seen the trouble coming for most of those years. The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker.