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Strategic Planning Steps

CO2

When people are aligned and prepared to make decisions, organizations and their employees act purposefully and swiftly. Predictably Unpredictable Organizations like to plan for predictable growth, and yet most organizations don’t grow or shrink in predictable ways. It also leads to a stronger sense of community and engagement.

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

” (Trevor Hall, Servant-Leadership Blog). ” (David Daniels, Business & Technology Reinvention). “The approach is current and I love that it ties technology and systems with strategy. “The approach is current and I love that it ties technology and systems with strategy.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. As with the other measures, what is important varies by industry.

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

Organizations are overrun with improvement initiatives, from infrastructure overhauls to sales programs. Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.)

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Your Employees Are Not Mind Readers

Harvard Business Review

When I was CEO of Campbell Soup Company, we used a balanced scorecard to create an explicit understanding of each employee in terms of what they were expected to accomplish, including financial objectives, market share objectives and key project objectives. This scorecard defined the "what." This is a long-term growth company.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology. Eventually, most collapse.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.