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How Your Leadership Team Can Slow Down to Speed Up

The Practical Leader

An old fable tells of a farmer with a wagon brimming full of cabbage heading to a new market. He stops for directions and asks, “How far is it to the market?” Fall is a popular time for strategic planning sessions. This issue focuses on strategic leadership. But if you rush, it will take all day.”

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What's On Your Stop-Doing List

Six Disciplines

According to Michael Porter, the essence of strategy is deciding what not to do. BOTTOMLINE: As part of the strategic planning process, a distinctive step in Discipline I. If your organization doesn't develop the discipline to do this, our wonderful free market system will. in which it advised: "No.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior. Develop your power play skills and use them as often as you can. Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. They show us how not behave. Don’t support hero promotions.

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Why "Break Technologies" Will Change Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Regardless of how well-positioned you are, how thoughtfully you've planned for the future, or how well you satisfy customers, your strategic plan will not always be on target. So if we can't perfectly predict the future from where we stand, we need to be able to quickly recognize when our plans need to change.

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The Big Picture of Business: Leadership for the New Order of Business Part 1

Strategy Driven

Business development. However, the manual writing of spreadsheets gave us the chance to digest and learn from the information, developing the skills to better program for our audience. Every way in which a company markets must be commensurate and fit under definable business strategies. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.