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Top 10 Posts from 2013

Nathan Magnuson

2013 featured a Leadership Profiles series and Powerful Questions series in addition to everyday leadership content. Here are the top 10 posts from 2013. Isn’t there a way to manage a project without micro managing each person? The Main Reasons Strategic Planning Fails. Did you find the right person?

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Strategic Planning – How Much Should Organizations Spend on Business Planning?

Strategy Driven

Furthermore, these business plans service as a communications mechanism to drive alignment of management decisions and employee actions to the effective and efficient achievement of the organization’s mission goals. You just finished reading Strategic Planning - How Much Should Organizations Spend on Business Planning?

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When Your Spouse is Also Your Employee

Great Leadership By Dan

This post first appeared 8/22/2013 in Smartblog on Leadership : It’s usually a good management rule of thumb not to get too friendly with your employees or to sleep with them. No one wants to be at the beach on a weekend discussing next year’s strategic plan. million businesses that are run by couples.

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Resource Management Warning Flag 3 – Marginalizing Employee Contributions

Strategy Driven

While leaders may express appreciation for an individual or group’s work effort, resource management programs sometimes unintentionally marginalize employee contributions. Resource management and strategic planning programs must therefore be carefully constructed so as to not unintentionally marginalize employee effort.

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Human Performance Management – Behavioral Drivers

Strategy Driven

Organizational outcomes evolve from management decisions and employee actions. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. All rights reserved.

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How to Grow Your Strategic Mindset

Strategy Driven

She is an AthenaOnline management expert and a faculty member of the Institute of Management Studies. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The post How to Grow Your Strategic Mindset appeared first on StrategyDriven. Relate Articles: Strategic Planning Best Practice 7 – Shared Accountability.

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Design and Influence Irresistible Change – Learn How in this Special Workshop

Change Starts Here

By the end of the workshop, you will have developed an Irresistible Change Plan that is unique to you, your organization, and your initiative. As the course material for this workshop, each attendee will receive and use the Irresistible Change Guide , the change management toolkit published last year. On or before July 31, 2013.

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