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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

Plans are nothing; planning is everything. 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.

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

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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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Rain: A book review by Bob Morris

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Fox Jossey-Bass (2009) Note: I read and reviewed this book when it was published about four years ago and recently re-read it in combination with Secrets of Great Rainmakers as I now complete a revised marketing plan for the balance of this calendar year. Rain is [.].

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Succeed: A book review by Bob Morris

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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…. Others have their own reasons for praising this book. Here are five of mine. The book is very well written. Heidi Grant Halvorson has accumulated, organized, and [.].

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Heidi Grant Halvorson: An interview by Bob Morris

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She writes about the scientifically-tested strategies we can use to be more effective reaching our goals at work and in our personal lives. Her new book is Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals (Hudson Street Press). Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD, is a motivational psychologist, researcher, and consultant.

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Voice of Experience: Mika Mayer (Morrison & Foerster)

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Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.” Anderson for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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The perils of bad strategy

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Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article, written by Richard Rumelt and featured by The McKinsey Quarterly online. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * Bad strategy abounds, says UCLA management professor Richard Rumelt. Senior executives who can spot it stand a much better chance of creating good strategies.