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The One GRAND Leadership Illusion That Sinks Organizations & Performance

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It’s within your control to identify new strategies for seizing opportunities. Mind Trick #2: You believe/assume that your plans and strategies, as long as followed, (“the map”) will take your company to its desired destination (“the territory”). Developing strategies and plans is a healthy practice for leaders to do.

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The One Question Every Leader Needs To Ask Every Day

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have you spent great effort and resources on goals and strategies that were never worth your time to begin with? Know which strategies and plans will lead you to your goals and which will not. Hope is not a strategy.”. Even if realistic today, your strategies and plans may not be valid tomorrow. Where can we win?

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12 Strategic Thinking Questions That Yield Big Results. The Bonus Question Is The Punch Line.

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Vision, Goals and Strategies. In order to achieve your BHAGs, what innovative ideas and strategies did you have to come up with? In keeping with this month’s theme of building your strategic thinking muscle, below are 12 provocative strategic questions to create a new future for you and your company.

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When Great Company Cultures Go to the Dark Side: 7 Signs Your Organization Is Headed in the Wrong Direction

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Blindspot 4: Your strategy and culture are working at cross purposes with each other. So many companies fall short in their goals because they overemphasize strategy with little/no attention to the cultural aspects that drive it. Strategy can be imitated by your competitors. Your unique, well-entrenched culture cannot.

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Brain Science Secrets to Increasing Leadership Willpower

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7 Simple Strategies to Strengthen & Conserve Your Leadership Willpower. Below are my 7 favorite strategies for conserving and strengthening leadership willpower. What if” strategies are critical for both strengthening and conserving your leadership willpower. 1. Empty Your Mind. Quiet Mind. 4. Anticipate Problems.

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Are You Aware Of The 3 Approaches to Strategic Planning?

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Even though I did strategy development for billion dollar corporations in the early days of my business 30 years ago, I had no idea that there were 3 different approaches to strategic planning. Future business goals and strategies may be established, but only after issues are identified and addressed. I learned alot from this article.

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How Great Strategic Thinking Leaders Think. The Finale Says It All.

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While most strategy development efforts focus on content – or what one thinks, strategic thinking is driven by how one thinks – ie., Achievement-thinking leaders choose strategies that exploit an advantage. Strategic thinking is more about the structure of one’s thinking, NOT the content of one’s thinking. We call this metacognition.