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Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren’t Strategic, or Even Plans

Harvard Business Review

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper.

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

PON has annually granted this award to a range of remarkable men and women such as former Secretary of State James Baker , Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein , and U.S. This year, PON honored Ambassador Tommy Koh of Singapore as its 2014 “Great Negotiator.” Special Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky. Minimize, then expand your circle.

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