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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

The problem is following a plan so closely without responding to events that you will “lead the company efficiently in the wrong direction.” Strategy involves completion of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them.” In a sense, strategy creates risk.

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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

.” Participants in a study on “ making time for work that matters ,” knowledge workers cut desk work by six hours per week and meeting time by two hours per week by identifying low-value tasks, deciding whether to drop, delegate, or redesign, off-loading tasks, allocating freed-up time, and committing to a development plan.

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What is the Price?

Kevin Eikenberry

Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! I’m looking forward to reading it (my copy is on the way) and after I’ve read it I will share more. Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision?

Price 185
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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. IALBA also plans to set up tuition courses to coach potential candidates to attain CMI’s Chartered Manager status.

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Is the Next Karl Marx a Management Consultant?

Harvard Business Review

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. And in that he sounds a lot like Michael Porter, Dominic Barton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, etc. Note to U.S.

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Your Digital Strategy Shouldn’t Be About Attention

Harvard Business Review

Today, too many strategists believe that a clever plan to win the internet’s attention is a good digital strategy. What every institution needs  —  and what every leader needs to develop  —  before a “digital strategy” is a human strategy. Are they talking about your brand?

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Getting Real About Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

As Thomas Lee noted in the New England Journal of Medicine, “no one can oppose this goal and expect long-term success.”. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Porter and colleagues adapt microeconomics to health care through their definition of output: patient-centered health outcomes.