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An Unaligned Age – We Need Much Better Alignment Within and Throughout our Organizations

First Friday Book Synopsis

from businessdictionary.com): Corporate alignment: Linking of organizational goals with the employees’ personal goals. Requires common understanding of purposes and goals of the organization, and consistency between every objective and plan right down to the incentive offers.

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Thoughts About Corporate Culture, from Apple, and the Chef’s Practice of mise-en-place

First Friday Book Synopsis

Corporate culture refers to the shared values, attitudes, standards, and beliefs that characterize members of an organization and define its nature. Corporate culture is rooted in an organization’s goals, strategies, structure, and approaches to labor, customers, investors, and the greater community.

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Succeed: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals Heidi Grant Halvorson Hudson Street Press/Penguin Group (2010) How and why almost anyone can achieve the goals they set IF…. Heidi Grant Halvorson has accumulated, organized, and [.]. Others have their own reasons for praising this book. Here are five of mine. The book is very well written.

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It’s “Planning Time” – Here are Some Key Questions to Ask as You Map Out Your Plan for 2013

First Friday Book Synopsis

Leadership teams in organizations across the land are beginning to work on their plan for next year. This process has a number of different names/descriptives — Strategic Planning; Yearly Goal Setting – but the process is simple. Eisenhower —————– It’s that time of year. It sort of [.].

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Brian Tracy on “Five Factors for Winning”

First Friday Book Synopsis

As the bio on his Amazon page explains, “Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations. Brian’s goal is to help you achieve your personal and business goals faster and easier than you ever imagined.

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Motivating Behavior Change: Boosting Performance by Mobilizing Pride Builders

First Friday Book Synopsis

They explain how and why achieving strategic goals and accelerating performance results often require that employees at multiple levels of the organization change certain critical behaviors. Many companies [.].

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Brian Tracy on “The role of a manager”

First Friday Book Synopsis

As the bio on his Amazon page explains, “Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations. Brian’s goal is to help you achieve your personal and business goals faster and easier than you ever imagined.