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Five Ways to Build Your Strategic Muscles

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What are their goals, concerns, opportunities, and threats? What can your company do to help them leverage their goals and opportunities, and mitigate their concerns and threats? Spend time learning from key customers : Conduct a series of listening tour visits and conversations with key customers.

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Fear Kills

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I have the feeling that the disaster in the Gulf will be fodder for leadership case studies for years to come. In other words, the crew felt safe in calling out issues that were in their immediate control, but feared reprisals from the leaders in the home office if they ran their concerns up the chain of command.