Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Identify strategic objectives and goals. I ask clients to do so without using the words: ‘technology,’ ‘sales,’ and ‘solutions.’ Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics. Sales is a tactic, one of dozens of tactics which an organization must pursue.

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Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 80

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

The achievement of current goals and objectives free up the time & create the resources to move on to bigger and better things…Trying to do too many things at once will impede progress, dilute effort & energy, add to chaos and lead to burn-out. Bottom line…success equals focus.

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Blog Leadership Brand Depreciation 412

leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The tone and tactics have infuriated some at the company. There’s little rationale for this move, especially for a technology company, and the direction comes in a memo that applauds the “positive momentum” and that the HR head “can all feel the buzz and energy in our offices.”. Bold leadership or bad decision?

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Policies Download Tactics Construction 148

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

As a time coach, I see this happen when clients become so fixated on specific tactics — getting up at 5 am, say, to make time for the gym, or a hard-and-fast rule that they never check email before 10 am — that they lose sight of the fact that many methods could lead to achieving their larger strategic goals.

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Tactics Goal Outsourcing Project 12

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. Tactics are often misconstrued as strategies. Tactics are often misconstrued as strategies. So are goals. Frankly, strategy is overused and misused; the word is tossed around corporate boardrooms with reckless abandon. Ever heard this? Likely true.

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Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. Tactics are often misconstrued as strategies. Tactics are often misconstrued as strategies. So are goals. Frankly, strategy is overused and misused; the word is tossed around corporate boardrooms with reckless abandon. Ever heard this? Likely true.

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

HR Digest

MARCH 19, 2024

Being a career-oriented individual doesn’t automatically mean you’re an expert on the top professional goals you need to prioritize for your growth. Image: Freepik Top Professional Goals to Embrace in Your Career Many strategies for professional growth seem obvious at first glance but it takes some active planning to make them achievable.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. Tactics are often misconstrued as strategies. Tactics are often misconstrued as strategies. So are goals. Frankly, strategy is overused and misused; the word is tossed around corporate boardrooms with reckless abandon. Ever heard this? Likely true.

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Leading Blog

JULY 3, 2023

Clarity on the goal eliminates confusion, sets guidelines for tactics, and avoids wasted time and effort. The end goal needs to make sense and appeal to the people you are leading. Here are five proven tips for leading change by starting with the goal: 1. Set a singular goal: Set a single overarching goal for the change.

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Tips Audience Goal Guidelines 231

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

.” An increasing number of companies — particularly in the auto industry — are heeding that call, setting aggressive, creative, and visionary goals that change their approach to business and how they relate to the wider world. Nissan is not alone in setting big goals. But it’s also very good for the business.

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Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Technology has exploded, giving us instant access to information and knowledge, and it all moves and changes so fast that some of what Boomers have learned during their careers may be obsolete. How do your organization’s strategic and operational goals inform what work roles will be needed in the future? Who will do this work?

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How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Services include: Executive Coaching Group Coaching Leadership Consulting Organization and Individual Leadership Assessments Motivational Speaking Technology Leadership When we think of selfless leaders, many great names come to mind: Jesus; Gandhi; King; Lincoln; Mandela; Stockdale… the list goes on. OK, this one is not simple.

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Leadership Newsletter Executive Coaching Follow-up 56

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

During the design phase you will also establish the goals and objectives of your program. An example of a goal for a mentoring program could be that mentees will be more confident and knowledgeable when interacting with clients. This increases your chance of meeting the goals and objectives you noted during the design phase.

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How To Tacit Knowledge Mentor Intellectual Capital 62

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. With knowledge and practice, associates gain confidence. With confidence, they become passionate performers.

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Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Their goal was to train people to stop waiting around for their bosses’ approval, and instead, feel empowered to make decisions on their own. No technologies to quickly move information to those who needed it to make decisions. Multiple levels of approval were required for even tactical decisions.

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Training Company Workshop Stress 11

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

To do that it has made use of imaging technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), along with brain wave analysis technologies such as quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). Goals are a tool used to drive everything forward and lead to the realization of their vision.

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Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Executives have begun to understand that to build a great business, companies need a larger goal, one that transcends the traditional bottom line. How technology is changing the way we work. Then watch what happens when they put their energy and talent into whatever role they operate in. These tactics work. Share context.

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Company How To CIO Chief Operating Officer 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. I watch them to experience the magical energy of live performances. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. by Hank Moore.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 57

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. With knowledge and practice, associates gain confidence. With confidence, they become passionate performers.

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Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

And attempts to prevent cyber attacks in this way will not scale with the new technologies that businesses are adopting, such as mobile devices and cloud computing. Think of the current approach as a soccer goalie trying to defend his goal by turning his back to the players on the field and instead staring intensely at the net.

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Film Tactics Uncertainty Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

But as economic, political, social, and technological change continue to accelerate, and competitive pressure grows more intense, leaders can't afford those odds. At the same time, he created a "not-to-do" list including projects that were driven by technology rather than customer needs. How do we keep moving forward?

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Long-term Short-term Engineering Self-aware 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

If you approach a new position or responsibility with the goal of “killing it right off the bat, you’re setting yourself up for failure,” says Cuddy. “Goals are a moving target,” she says, requiring constant setting and resetting. Case Study #1: Focus on the opportunity and set small, achievable goals.

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How To Case Study Tactics Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. Today, Weaver’s mass-mailing tactics seem quaintly out of date. How technology is changing the way we work. We’ve come a long way. Insight Center.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. While men are singlemindedly focused on meeting linear goals, women are building bridges that may serve them in the future. Focus on what’s in it for others.

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Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

but strong management is an important differentiator in both digital delivery and in aligning that delivery to strategic goals. Digital, social, and mobile technologies are still new enough that there’s a lot that’s measured as a binary (a checkbox for responsive design, for example) or subjectively (that new app looks great).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The company had put in place advanced mobile technology that has become increasingly standard — for instance, laptops in every truck connected to the central dispatch and order system — to track the mechanics as they did their jobs. And we waste energy (and put a drag on productivity) trying to fool them into being right.

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Efficiency Bottom-up Self-aware Productivity 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals. Employers frequently ask about diversity training but, when asked about their goals, they don't really have one.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 292

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology. These collaborations happen in a transparent way and should not be confused with the harmful collusion tactics that we should be vigilant about.).

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

But many don’t have one, instead adopting only defensive, short-term, or narrowly self-interested “government relations” tactics. telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). health or energy) or in general cross-cutting subjects (e.g., taxes or trade).

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Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

Your goal is to show your “commitment to helping your colleague develop and grow,” but also to “step back, remember the organizational mandate, and think about how best you can work side-by-side with this person to get things done.” It creates positive energy. Ask your direct report to do the same. Be curious.

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Productivity Products How To Report 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. The irony is that its principal corporate contributor (Eastman Kodak) fell by the wayside, a victim of changing technologies. Determine goals. Yet, we often fail to see it coming. Too many companies live with their heads in the sand. by Hank Moore.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the ‘mother speed’ of 78-RPM. Goal Inspiring. Change is innovative. by Hank Moore.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 60

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Ceasing CD production will harm an already ailing music industry, where technology is not the answer: Analyzing the music industry and changing technologies. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Focusing only on the technology, not on the creative output. by Hank Moore.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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