Chart Your Course

JUNE 23, 2016

A vision statement is a road map of the company’s goals and the way that it will achieve them. For example, Revant Optics ‘ employees participated as a team in the Wild Canyon Games, a three-day race that promotes team building and camaraderie for professionals. Co-Operation. Ask Questions. Give Them Cash. Scavenger Hunt.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

1 This feeling of incongruity can be deeply unsettling, for example, when men set off explosives at a marathon race or open fire in a movie theater; that is not how our world is supposed to operate. They may need to get out of their comfort zone, adapt their identity a bit, or adjust their goals a little. Frame the Change.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Yet in business, leaders too often feel as though they’re operating under life and death conditions. Wild conditions are the time when paddling firmly with intention can establish momentum and create a welcome sense of stability during the turbulence. You get wet, climb back on, and start again. Mistakes fuel progress.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career? Are there networking situations which are beneficial for all parties? If so, analyze and align with those situations, rather than with the fruitless ones. Analyze them by category, to see patterns.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Dale Carnegie was an American writer, lecturer and training developer born into humble circumstances in 1888. They are so potent I guarantee it will make a difference for you (just like it has for me), provided you will put the principles to use. Who Was Dale Carnegie?

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I spoke with Nick about their research and their book, WILD THINKING: 25 Unconventional Ideas To Grow Your Brand and Your Business. What is wild thinking? Wild thinking is what happens when you pose 25 thought-provoking questions to 25 intelligent, creative leaders in organizations as diverse as Google, Gap, Time Out and Twinings.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. Once a brand’s appeal begins to erode, it will require significant time and expense to recover.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

While competitive dominance and service excellence are nice goals for senior managers, they do not motivate frontline employees. If done right, a Statement of Cause sets the foundation for culture that aligns strategy and influences operational execution. Traditional vision statements do not energize or align today’s workers.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

No matter what the strategic plan says, many of us are more attracted to something new that’s glittering on the horizon than we are to the goals that have languished on our to-do list for months. Will I still need to deliver on all my other goals too? Agree to begin the research or development phase.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

The healthy habits that I attribute to my success as a leader are practice what I preach, set healthy boundaries, practice mindfulness, exercise, work hard and invest in my ongoing learning and personal development. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! What is that!?”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Develop empathy for them by asking three sets of questions: Who is going to be in the room and what are their needs? In what broader culture and environment are you operating and what are some of the overarching challenges and opportunities? Framing pushes the meeting leaders to ensure that there are clear goals for each meeting.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply. Being able to "see" is a skill that must be present or developed in an EntreLeader. The corporate mission statement is further clarification and definition for your dreams and vision and assures you that your goals are aimed at the right target. Carl Sandburg.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Companies such as Opower and My Energy have developed these data systems, and they can now point to studies that show the combination of data and social pressure reduces home energy use. Putnam Investments has developed a “How Do I Compare?” Many people are aware by now, for instance, that utility companies across the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Consider these cases (with names disguised to protect confidentiality): Bill''s venture capital-backed business concept was to operate a new revenue-producing service for large U.S. Then he was offered an even bigger international site in a developing country eager for American know-how, in partnership with a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

To help you answer this vital question, consider these two definitions: Hot conflict is when one or more parties are highly emotional and doing one or more of the following: speaking loudly or shouting; being physically aggressive, wild or threatening; using language that is incendiary; appearing out of control and potentially explosive.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Calculating organic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In most larger companies, you'll need to generate roughly 200+ responses per operating unit per period. Your customer metrics must correlate with financial and strategic goals. But before you make such a move, help yourself avoid the pitfalls and risks described in my earlier post by meeting five preconditions: 1.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

He made it a goal to provide life preparation for students to take their place in society after graduation. Everything operated as its own unit. There was no sense of a larger purpose or united goal. It turns out that academia, like most professions and industries, values the status quo. . As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

But what if the company’s goal was never to unleash the disrupter itself so much as to encourage incumbent broadband providers to do so, helping Google’s expansion in adjacent markets such as video and emerging markets including smart homes? Seen through that lens, Google Fiber succeeded wildly.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

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 Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. They are self-serving networkers and offer nothing for you.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. The goal: to reduce negative environmental and social impacts of the $1.4 The greening of the supply chain. Big organizations keep asking more of their suppliers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.” The resulting images of Play-Doh, newly painted birdhouses, and freshly mown grass led product developers far from the types of scents normally associated with deodorants and antiperspirants.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. The negotiators achieved their goal and closed a clever and profitable deal. Advanced practitioners of partnership strategies have developed approaches that work for them and may work for you. So it has a place in partnership strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

services such as Kickstarter (and others including Indiegogo and Rockethub ) have operated on a donation model. If the project goal is reached, Kickstarter collects the pledges from backers, taking a 5% cut before turning over the proceeds to the organizers. The new law’s goal was to restart the stalled U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. Agile software development. Frameworks for adaptive software development like Agile, have been around for a long time, and have manifested in many forms. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile.

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