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A Non-Profit Board’s AHA Moment

Lead Change Blog

When I was a naive manager thrust into a management role, I had the misconception that most leaders back then were born or they just seemed to drop from the sky. Our bank management training group dwindled down as we became “leaders” and landed new roles. Forward a year and I acknowledged my errors. Wish us luck!

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The Big Picture of Business – Visioning Scope: Applying Vision Toward Your Organization’s Progress

Strategy Driven

Clarify management values. Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. By benchmarking activities and accomplishments against planned objectives, then the company has a barometer of its previous phase and an indicator of its next phase. Never let the vision lapse.

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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. We must learn to benefit from change management, not to become victims of it. It helps to manage relations with stakeholders. It is more than a slogan or rehash of a Mission Statement. Change is 90% beneficial. About the Author.

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The Big Picture of Business – Diversity is Important for Business

Strategy Driven

I was on the committee that wrote that legislation. Holds benchmarks for Continuous Quality Improvement. It opens your services to additional market niches. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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It’s a Match! How to Create an Equitable Compensation System That Fits You

HR Digest

Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices. If our equitable compensation program guide is to be trusted, you need to identify relevant external benchmarks to understand prevailing salary ranges for similar roles in the market.

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