Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

But at some point, you will need to step back and observe what is happening so you can develop your strategic end game plan. Even with proper planning, this can be a difficult phase. Once the 911 moment begins, you’ll find yourself reacting any number of challenges.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Power Principle 3: Plan the Work and Work the Plan Be intentional with your time, energy, and focus. Create a 90-day action plan that ‘helps you focus on small, actionable, specific steps to achieve important outcomes in your vision.” It brings people on board with your vision and plan.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But they all make us uncomfortable because something is not going the way we planned it. Things don’t always go the way we planned them to go for absolutely no good reason. We should anticipate our plans going awry and prepare for it, but most of us are not remotely prepared to deal with real disruptions.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

Former Navy Seal Brent Gleeson on the difference between planning and preparation: “Planning is certainly part of preparation, but it’s much more than that. Preparation means you know the plan, but you also have the functionality and skill to pivot when things don’t go according to that plan. “[The

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We need to create a communication plan for the organization, and each leader needs to plan to communicate. A leader’s job is to unite his or her associates by helping them all see the same thing. This is the responsibility of leaders, not marketing or the communications department. Hucksters tell great stories.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

The Takeaway for Leaders and Businesses If there is one thing you take away from Microsoft’s story, let it be this: Innovation requires planning. They plan their luck. When leaders become known as innovators—succeeding at new things again and again—they do not just “get lucky.”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

We create plans and projections and proclamations — stories inside our minds about perfect statues and how high expectations are a requirement for high performance. Source: Ego Free Leadership: Ending the Unconscious Habits That Hijack Your Business II. I’m not saying that having goals is completely useless.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

This journey towards wisdom very much implies living in the present, planning for the future, and profiting from the past.” During this journey, you can have a choice: you can acquire wisdom or you can remain blinded. What you decide to do is all up to you. Source: Leading Wisely: Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times II.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Have a disaster recovery plan. Take lessons from the past to constructively plan for the future. The importance of maintaining your values during a crisis is a key factor for taking your team on the difficult journey with you. In crises, winning organizations act like start-ups. Prepare Now The first step is to prepare.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

That playbook should ensure management team alignment, have an official launch date, a communication strategy, a plan to cascade the message throughout the organization, create a behavioral manifesto, and a plan for feedback. Step Three: Launch, Cascade, and Embed If you want to drive culture change, you need a playbook.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Niccolò Machiavelli on resistance to change: “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2023

Share some details of your plan when you’ve already got it in place. If we are in Wonderhell, we’re on the right track to live out our potential. * * * If you have a dream, a plan, a demon, a potential, or an unshakable goal that excites you and scares you at the same time, Otting offers the Wonderhell Quiz to find a way through it.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Charles Handy on the nature of vision: “A plan or a strategy which is a projection of the present or a replica of what everyone else is doing is not a vision. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In Come Up for Air, you’ll discover the CPR® Business Efficiency Framework, a proven system for leaders, managers, and teams to maximize their performance and reduce overwhelm by using the right tools in the right way, at the right time.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

Test #1 Can You Develop a Simple Plan for Your Strategy? This test begins with the ability to crystalize the issue or idea in simple terms and then create a clear, galvanizing plan to get everyone moving in the same direction.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2020

The Business Plan: It’s easy to let passion cloud your judgment. The most important thing when planning your business should be the accuracy of your facts and statistics. The most important thing when planning your business should be the accuracy of your facts and statistics.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

We don’t want to set any more goals or plans. Gilkey covers how to make space for your project and the obstacles that get in the way of that and how to work your plan. And like physical constipation, at a certain point, we get toxic. We don’t want to take in any more ideas. We don’t want to do any more projects. We’re full and fed up.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Because they have never been obliged to plan for themselves, they have never developed the best things in them—their power of originality, inventiveness, initiative, independence, self-reliance, their possible grit and stamina. They have simply carried out somebody else’s program.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

Why We Fail To Plan For The Future via @DigitalTonto Greg Satell. New Year or New Job: Five Keys to a Successful 100-Day Plan by @HeinzMarketing Matt Heinz. How To Invest In Startups by @sama Sam Altman. The Most Important Thing No One Ever Taught You by @LaRaeQuy. Inside big tech's quest for human-level A.I. via @FortuneMagazine.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Those with this motivational tendency enjoy figuring things out as they go, rather than make a detailed plan. They want to plan carefully, and they have an incredible ability to follow through on a process or a whole project to completion. What is our plan from there? Where should we start?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Impulse to Avoid Taking Action When you look at plans that seem too big to tackle, you are sure to think and talk about them without actually doing anything. Sure, some kids lived for “extra credit,” but they were in the minority. It’s tempting to keep following the easier first impulse throughout college and career, too.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

In the wake of 9/11, GE’s people needed to hear, and to believe, that we had a plan and that, working together, they could help us execute it. When leaders merely unload their burdens without offering a plan of action, that’s selfishness masquerading as candor—the arrogance of false piety. Transparency is an admirable goal.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

To connect your vision of the future to a concrete plan for what you must do today to bring it to life, you need to develop three portfolios: future state portfolio, innovation portfolio, and an investment portfolio. Convert Vision to Strategy. We need to look for the balance and link the present with the future.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Thompson on taking action in a crisis: “Challenges don’t come neatly packaged the way we planned them. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Thompson and Bonita S.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Football is ultimately a business, and as in any successful business the most important ingredients are a sound culture, a realistic plan, strong leadership, and a talented workforce.” A leader has to have a plan. What good is the plan if you can’t talk about the plan? Followers need something to commit to.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Architect : Bankable plan. Establish strong governance, decide how to scale your change initiatives, monitor their progress, and dynamically adjust as plans are implemented. As you move forward, plans change, conditions change, and assumptions are challenged. Act : Ownership model. The relationship is dynamic and not linear.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

That’s because you plan how you’ll negotiate in isolation, yet you negotiate within a relationship—whether that relationship is professional or personal. Regardless of your initial intentions and whether the negotiation is going the way you planned, you can still influence the next steps and the direction you’d like the negotiation to take.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

There’s no long-term planning; there’s no strategic prioritization of issues.” Planning for speculative future ones is, by definition, not urgent. Tunneling is a condition where you find that “when people are juggling a lot of problems, they give up trying to solve them all. They adopt tunnel vision. Is it worth the effort?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

You’ll find practical steps you can take to build your own plan for finding the right mentor for you, or for becoming someone else’s trusted advisor. In the book, she explores the mentorship advice that helped her start a groundbreaking company after studying entrepreneurship and strategic management at MIT and Harvard.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Here are ten books to help you get back into the world of work and make plans for an improved future: How Trust Works : The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired by Peter H. A good book helps us to do just that. Same as Ever reverses the process, inviting us to identify the many things that never, ever change.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

Leaders can help by providing financial planning, investing, and savings resources and tools. People need, especially in a crisis, four leadership traits as a signal that their life will be OK: Hope (Is there a clear plan for the future?), Raises in income affect happiness to a point. Stability (Am I well-prepared to do my work?),

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Part of the problem is that we have developed a mindset of indefinite optimism or hoping the future will get better with no plan—the future just-sort-of-happens approach. That is to say, getting on with building the future you envision—working the plan. We need to get back to making a plan for the future.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2017

The problem as Mohasseb sees it is that many leaders are stuck in their approach to planning and execution. The data you are using can’t be captured in a fixed plan or you’ll have an excellent strategy for the year before. Your planning and execution needs to be more dynamic than that. We need a new and more agile approach.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Theodore Roosevelt Tax Plan to Curtail Rising Oligarchy by @jamesstrock Inheritance Taxes Can Succeed Where Wealth Levies Cannot. Innovation Is Everyone’s Business by Ben M. Bensaou via @INSEADKnowledge. 3 hallmarks of effective leadership communication. Boss’s Tip of the Week: They’re watching you from @wallybock.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The most perfectly rational plan of action is to always put yourself first.”. But it seems increasingly clear that these metaphors and the models that flow from them aren’t working. The ‘natural’ thing to do in most situations is to take the easy way out. Source: Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong : And What We Can Do About It. * * *.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2019

The Myth of “Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail” by @Gleb_Tsipursky via @JesseLynStoner. There is no section marked “managing your professional decline.”. 6 pieces of wisdom to help young leaders thrive in uncertain times By Kayvan Kian via @McKinsey. Want To Project Strength? Show Your Vulnerability! from @JohnBaldoni.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2020

Truly being ready means understanding what could go wrong—and having a plan to deal with it. . … Feeling ready to do something doesn’t mean feeling certain you’ll succeed, though of course that’s what you’re hoping to do.

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