The Practical Leader

APRIL 5, 2023

Leadership and culture development to build capacity for implementation planning wasn’t on the agenda. This magical thinking causes many leaders to come back from planning sessions and direct their managers to, as Jean Luc Picard, captain of the USS Enterprise, commanded, “Make it so.”

Planning 52

Planning Strategic Planning How To Operations 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Budget it each year. How much time away from business can you take? How does it compare with the business you can or will generate? Cut the weeds by seeing your time for networking and volunteering as a commodity. Examine and benchmark the reasons and results. Set boundaries, and offer your time on an ‘a la carte’ basis.

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Strategy Budgeting Risk Management Strategic Planning 90

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Develop attitudes, behaviors and skills as the motivator to create bigger successes. Body of Knowledge – Develop profound insights and life-long perspectives into the teachings of success and failure (learning three times more from failures than success). 7 Benefits of Success, Stemming from Failure.

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Succession Due Diligence Budgeting Risk Management 78

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Clarify management values. Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. This process helps to define and develop value systems to create success. Develop a mission statement. Develop the vision statement.

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Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 79

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

It is good business to recognize opportunities for practice development. In the Chinese culture, every crisis is first recognized as a danger signal and always as an opportunity for overcoming obstacles. Actions are always required. Good intentions and political correctness are not enough.

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Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 86

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

The following 8 items constitute the basic tenants of branding, which if incorporated into your brand management strategy will help build a solid brand regardless of the size of your company or your ad budget: 1.

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Brand Blog How To Public Relations 271

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

The Big Picture of Business – Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 73

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

The Big Picture of Business – Cut the Weeds: Focus on Priorities and Strategy, Avoid the Time Zappers.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting Risk Management 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Each product-service is budgeted. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Cash flow, forecasting and budgeting are consistently monitored. Business development. Running the business.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

There are no fast-forward buttons or skipping steps inn developing an effective organization, just as there are no shortcuts in formulating a career and Body of Work. Are the long-range strategic planning and budgeting processes integrated? Questions to ask entrepreneurs: Do you have goals for the next year in writing?

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Entrepreneur Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision. About the Author.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The UC Berkley budget gap has grown to $150 million, & still the Chancellor is spending money that isn't there on $3,000,000 consultants. Best wishes for continued success Marlyn. moravecglobal Here's another example of disconnected leadership and the consequences for, in this case, students, faculty and taxpayers.

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The Big Picture of Business – Avoid the Tired, Trite Terms: Encourage Original Thought, Focus on Priorities and Strategy.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2024

This is evidenced by the following statistic : In 2023, over 80% of marketers had a budget dedicated solely to influencer marketing. Yet even if you have a budget, it’s essential you spend those dollars wisely. Moreover, digital PR agencies are adept at crisis management. Back in 2017, it was just 37%.

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Influence Media Marketing Strategy 86

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The term Budgeting gets tossed around in many ways. Budgets get blamed for gridlock. Budgets get politicized. Business development. Budgets get more attention than the umbrellas under which they rightfully belong: Strategic Planning and Visioning. Budgeting by itself is a minor piece of business strategy.

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Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 66

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We must learn to benefit from change management, not to become victims of it. Corporate Responsibility relates to every stage in the evolution of a business, leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of doing business. Change is 90% beneficial.

Ethics 50

Ethics Mission Statement Strategic Planning Benchmarking 50

Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 5, 2010

Here are the ones that sparked the most discussion within our group: Sponsorship game: hitch your wagon to an influential senior leaders’ star Lording game: lording (whatever little) power you have over a subordinate Expert game: inappropriately exploiting technical expertise and knowledge Empire building game: grabbing as much power-base as you (..)

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Politics Organization Mintzberg Loyalty 53

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The sharing of trust and ideas leads to developing business philosophies. The management that takes steps to “fix themselves” rather than always projecting problems upon other people will have a successful organization. Develop, update and maintain a career growth document. The mentor opens doors for the mentee.

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Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Natural disaster stages: Warning, hit, search and rescue, recovery, rebounding, analysis, flood prevention planning, learning from crisis, community development. The more we do for others, the more we feel the “potlache” of giving to others. Commit to a program of volunteering.

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Crisis Teamwork Marketing Commitment 62

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. Learn from failures, reframing them as opportunities. Learn to expect, predict, understand and relish success. Behave as a gracious winner. Acquire visionary perception. Contribute to the bottom line, directly and indirectly. Offer value-added service.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Planning, tactics, organizational development. Business Development. You develop-champion the tools to change. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. Assignments, responsibilities, functions, relationships, follow-through, accountability. Systems and Processes. Culture and Mission. Philosophy.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The most effective rewards are monetary, so invest as much as your budget will allow in things like pay increases, bonuses, stock options and promotions. Additional Reading you might enjoy: H ow Great Leadership is Generated in Significant Crisis. The One Aspect Of Crisis Management That No One Talks About.

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Motivation Crisis Politics Crisis Management 217

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He was on the creative planning team for catalyst, works with leadership development of Chick-Fil-A, and is quarterbacking many projects for well known leaders. He is rare in the world of coaching and leadership development and I feel honoured that he has chosen to partner with me to deliver our leadership workshops.

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Blog Covey Learning-by-Doing Video 321

Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 20, 2010

Whether you’re chasing a sales budget, a promotion, a new job, a raise, delivering a project on time… spending time worrying about the outcome isn’t going to make it happen. Never truer words were spoken. The only thing that will get you there is to focus on the tasks and actions that will get you to your goal.

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Godin Blog Class Crisis Management 34

Roundtable Talk

MAY 5, 2010

Running a leadership development organization is not exactly the way to become a billionnaire overnight and during recessions, the first thing people cut is the development budget. Which leads me to my next point. But, when people asked me how our fledging business was doing, my response was “Great. Bookmark the permalink.

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Godin Blog Career Learning-by-Doing 31

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Delineate other categories of visitors, and develop a strategy for maximizing your time with key prospects. Develop action plans for accomplishing your goals and getting the right people to visit with your company at the show. Evaluate each trade show for what it contributes to your sales objective. About the Author.

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How To Follow-up Participative Objective 50

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 3, 2010

People had achieved their budgets/targets and there was this feeling of “ugh… now I have to start from ground zero again.&# After running a business and running sales teams for years, I always noticed that the first month after year-end was a tough one for many of my team.

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Motivation Godin Blog Crisis Management 34

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. Business development. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. by Hank Moore.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 75

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. Communicating and developing people skills. Processes, trends, fads, perceived stresses and “the system” force adults to make compromises in order to proceed. Serving the under-served.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Our research and analysis has revealed a complicated relationship between mindfulness and executive performance—one that is important for leaders to understand as they seek to develop in their careers. Improved crisis management. Increased budgets and team headcount. Heightened output. Better project outcomes.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Report Micromanagement 15

Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 28, 2010

While you’re competing to get more budget, headcount, resources for your team, the guy in marketing is doing the same. Look long-term at the effects of your short-term battles: the reality of peer relationships at the leadership level is that they are often competitive.

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Management Short-term Politics Long-term 34

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Through all that, I became enamored with community service, developing trust relationships with stakeholders. We were required to perform Community Ascertainment, a process by which we interviewed leaders on problems of the municipality and how our station might help to address them.

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Advertising Education Audience Marketing 50

Roundtable Talk

JULY 13, 2010

Ask for money AND time… launching new initiatives on a shoestring budget is often a recipe for disaster. (Hands up everyone who has a great orientation program… not just for new hires but for people who are promoted from within?) Without adequate funding and support, your initiative will slowly derail.

Sports 31

Sports How To Follow-up Blog 31

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

The integrated management is based on software developed by our own IT department. We are also progressively increasing the IT share on our municipal budget because we know the value technology can bring to raise efficiency and improve the quality of services to citizens. We don't have snow storms.

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Software Early Adopters Technology Crisis 14

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Business development. Training and development of people. The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Organizational vision.

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Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 79

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. Thus, efforts to treat a fraction of one percent took resources away from addressing the other 99.999% of companies’ full-scope planning, training and marketplace development. Getting past the current crisis does no good unless you take steps to assure that it does not recur. Running the business.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Business development. The same planning process that nurtures Crisis Preparedness can and must also accommodate for Crisis Management. This is regarded as a premiere textbook case of quality crisis management. This industrial development program carried the theme, “You Can Believe/Puede Creer.”

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71