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13 Things that Make Organizations Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. It’s crucial to develop leadership at all levels, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Leadership doesn’t make “a difference.” It makes “the difference.” Ordinary products languish. Be extraordinary.

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

Strategy Driven

Identify strategic objectives and goals. Tactics feed into objectives, which feed into goals, which feed into strategy, which feeds into Vision. 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.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Fine Art of Failure: Benefiting from Mistakes to Assure Success

Strategy Driven

Continuous quality improvement means that we benchmark accomplishments and set the next reach a little further. Develop attitudes, behaviors and skills as the motivator to create bigger successes. A 90 percent success rate for a person with a good attitude and responsible behavior is unbeatable. There is no such thing as perfection.

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We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top

Harvard Business Review

Our goal: to crack the code of these women’s success, in order to help organizations better identify and leverage their highest-potential female leaders and to ensure more women succeed in the future. Female CEOs scored significantly higher, in the 70th percentile, than the benchmark for humility, the 55th.

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The Big Picture of Business: Goal Setting… An Important Part of Strategic Planning.

Strategy Driven

Human beings live to attract goals. Organizations get people caught in activity traps…unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Mutually agreed-upon goals are vital. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. by Hank Moore.

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Know Thyself Part II - Smart Emotions

You're Not the Boss of Me

Finally, leaders who manage relationships well tend to be good at motivating and inspiring others. But, the EI Quotient gives us a benchmark for goal setting and improvement. link] LeadershipNews: A Leadership Crisis or a Branding Issue? And they are collaborators and team builders extraordinaire. So don’t panic.

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The Big Picture of Business – Setting, Meeting, and Benefiting from Goals

Strategy Driven

New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Additionally, corporate executives must have personal goals written, in conjunction with a professional business coach or mentor. Goals require measurable objectives, with realistic dates and percentages for successful accomplishment.

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