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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

The first type is known as tactical performance. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Overdoing Tactical Performance.

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“Competitive Intelligence” Shouldn’t Just Be About Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

While large consulting firms push expensive “war games” at the leadership level, Jessica ran cheap and quick local games based on local market dynamics. She then fed the results as market intelligence input into a senior leadership competitive game. Simply and clearly put, CI is a perspective on changing market conditions.

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Morning Advantage: Your Inner Voice Should Keep Its Big Yap Shut

Harvard Business Review

Among the half-dozen tactics to improve your leadership communication skills offered by Dr. Andrew Newberg in Fast Company is this juicy nugget: learn to control your inner voice. Verizon made headlines last week with a new approach to mobile-data pricing, but according to Slate's Farhad Manjoo, much of its strategy is still "dumb."

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical. Define Your Strategy. CIOs need to develop an affirmative IT strategy that begins by identifying old behaviors to give up, new behaviors to adopt, and remaining behaviors to do differently. This means a lot of change for enterprise IT organizations.

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You’re Never Too Experienced to Fake It Till You Learn It

Harvard Business Review

In my research on how experienced managers and professionals step up to bigger leadership roles, I have observed both the value and the difficulty of returning to our youthful, fake-it-till-you-learn-it strategies. Still, she persisted, adjusting her tactics along the way. Leadership development Leadership transitions'

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Build a ‘Quick and Nimble’ Culture

Harvard Business Review

He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture. Leadership' Excerpts: Why did you focus on culture? The Relationship Between Anxiety and Performance. Use Language to Shape a Creative Culture.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

And Its Execution Gap Closer Round-Up Execution Gap Closer #1: Netflix Netflix received considerable media attention this year as it demonstrated its ability to successfully execute its strategy to provide video over the Internet.