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The Big Picture of Business – Ethics… Good for Business

Strategy Driven

Corporate Responsibility is more than just a statement that a committee whips together. Corporate Responsibility relates to every stage in the evolution of a business, leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of doing business. It is more than a slogan or rehash of a Mission Statement. Change is 90% beneficial.

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How Cisco Gets Brutally Honest Feedback to Top Leaders

Harvard Business Review

At Cisco, we designed an in-depth executive assessment to help us profile each of our topmost leaders: strengths, development needs, aspirations, strategic capabilities, blind spots, operational capabilities, how they develop their teams, how they fare in big-stage versus one-on-one communications, and so on.

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The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Strategy Driven

Can the benchmarking information be accessed regularly? How diverse is the planning committee? Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Continuous quality improvement within your own operation. Does your strategic plan adequately describe what you do?

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The Big Picture of Business: The Realities of Networking

Strategy Driven

They staff committees and events, hoping to generate more leads. Just because you once spoke to their business club, attended a workshop with them or served on a volunteer committee, they keep coming back to you for free work. There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. Social Networkers.

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

Strategy Driven

I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making.