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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

Strategy involves completion of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them.” Because “uncertainty can only be reduced by committed decisions and actions,” you can choose to create a “certainty of purpose and direction.”. In a sense, strategy creates risk.

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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

It’s often seen as a sign of commitment. Gallen in Switzerland, and Jochen Menges, lecturer in human resources and organizations at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School. Busyness too often becomes the “fabric of the organization.” But for other leaders, it’s about face time.

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Creating A Purpose-Driven Corporation

The Horizons Tracker

Corporate law should place purpose at the heart of the corporation and require directors to state their purposes and demonstrate commitment to them. Despite this, there is a growing desire for corporations to be better stakeholders, with Wharton’s Sarah Kaplan outlining as much in her latest book, The 360° Corporation.

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How to Manage a Perfectionist

Harvard Business Review

It's when it becomes an obsession that it's a problem," says Robert Steven Kaplan, a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and author of What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential. No one loves to do things just adequately," says Kaplan.

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If All of Work Were Gamified

Harvard Business Review

McGonigal suggests that the four defining traits of any game — a goal, clear rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation — can be applied to any challenge. Organizations have a lot of experience with goal setting, rules, and incentives. She even says game-playing makes us better people.

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Will the Sun Shine Bright on Kentucky Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

It's a goal that nearly every locale seems to have these days, but here there's a particular sense of urgency given the recent election of new mayors in both towns. These students constitute a network with deep roots in the community and deep commitment to it. BIF's annual Collaborative Innovation Summit BIF-7 , takes place Sept.

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15 Hours: A Common Sense Action Blueprint for Congress

Mills Scofield

Sam Gilman and Andrew Kaplan , college juniors started Common Sense Action in 2012 with one chapter. We tried to live the example that we wished Congress followed: we had made a commitment to ourselves, to each other, and to our chapters to craft an agenda by working together across difference. Well, it''s happening. The setting?

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