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How Clear Is Your Vision for 2019?

Lead Change Blog

That personal focus and practice were defined beautifully in the seminal book by Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner , entitled Full Steam Ahead: Unleashing the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life. What I write about here is the vision that is aligned with your leadership.

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Highlighting Our January 2017 Sponsor: Bill Treasurer

Lead Change Blog

Top leadership expert Ken Blanchard calls the book “a wake-up call for leaders at every level.” Bill and Giant Leap have provided strategic planning services to corporate, non-profit, and academic research settings. As Steve jobs famously said, “Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

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Closeout for 6.24.11

LDRLB

Tim Vanderpyl added one more posts to the growing dialogue about strategy asking who benefits when strategic plans are merely expensive coffee coasters ? David Burkus provided a book review of the re-release of Jesse Lyn Stoner and Ken Blanchard’s Full Steam Ahead.

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The Paradoxical Gift of Paradox

Mills Scofield

In preparing for a strategic planning session this week, I realized that no matter how many of these I do, there is always a paradoxical feeling of being nervous about doing an excellent job for my client and being confident (hopefully not arrogance) in being great at what I do. and the rest of a business ecosystem to say the least.

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The January Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2011 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Tim Vanderpyl, The LeaderLab (submitted by David Burkus): Save a Tree, Stop Strategic Planning. Chris Edmonds presents Be A Values-Aligned Leader posted at Driving Results Through Culture , saying, "Blanchard's culture guru S. It has it all: leaders, stinky fish, a funny picture, a bit of personal history and a moral.".

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 1

Strategy Driven

Seven essential rules for effective strategic planning. I first saw this term used in the book Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard. With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life. What is a Raving Fan Customer?

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Loud and Clear: Six Tips for Communicating in a Way That Truly.

Strategy Driven

Ken Blanchard Co-author of The One Minute Manager and Golden Gavel Award recipient “Finally! While I think I’ve come a long way on that journey, I never fully understood what it takes to be a world-class communicator until I read Nancy Duarte’s Resonate. Thanks, Nancy!” Someone has incorporated the power of story into presentations!”

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