In the CEO Afterlife

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Who Makes Resolutions Come True? YOU

In the CEO Afterlife

Before setting them, I’d like to suggest that you consider a fundamental question before setting goals and objectives for your personal life and your professional life. Let’s look at this issue from a strategic perspective via a short check list: Define your goals. Most of them will emerge from the goal definition exercise.

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What’s Holding YOU Back?

In the CEO Afterlife

is the fundamental question everyone should answer BEFORE setting goals, objectives and resolutions for the New Year. Let’s look at this issue from a strategic perspective via a short check list: Define your goals. Most of them will emerge from the goal definition exercise. “What is holding you back?” you get my drift.

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Tips On Honing A Culture Of Winning Through Focus by Martin Zwilling

In the CEO Afterlife

Well-articulated goals and metrics. No organization, large or small, can manage more than five goals and priorities without becoming unfocused and ineffective. It comes naturally with a small highly motivated team, but it’s increasingly difficult to maintain in the face of size and success. Build it at the start and don’t ever lose it.

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The Human Capital Advantage

In the CEO Afterlife

This is the first goal of running a successful business. Unlike objectives, goals are intangible. My soapbox rants on leadership, strategy and executional principles and practices are for naught without the right human capital in the right place at the right time, every time. One never quite gets there.

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Minimalism: Doing More, with Less

In the CEO Afterlife

One woman spoke about Project 333, a goal to live three months with only 33 articles of clothing and accessories to her name. Stories of individuals across the country who have adopted a minimalist lifestyle, and preach a better quality of life because of it, are portrayed in the documentary.

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Inspiration from The Daffodil Principle

In the CEO Afterlife

That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time–often just one baby-step at a time–and learning to love the doing, learning to use the accumulation of time. When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can accomplish magnificent things.

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Clout as Strategy and Why Companies Won't Admit It | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. So are goals. Clout as Strategy and Why Companies Won’t Admit It. by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. What is the definition of strategy? Elementary question, you say. Here is the elementary answer.

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