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The Principles of Agile Planning

Strategy Driven

Here is how to use smart planning to make strides toward greater agility and market success. That’s the way to improve your time-to-market without compromising on product quality. Account for continuous change in your strategies. You should be able to demolish all the hurdles on the road to market domination.

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Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Another endorsed “willingness to learn and adapt to changing environments,” and a third urged “adaptability, the ability to operate in multi-cultural environments and the openness to learn.” Some argued that merely keeping pace with industry and market changes is inadequate; an executive must anticipate change.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Here’s why: “Most organizations see leaders'' as drivers of results - exceeding sales quotas, deepening market share, boosting profits, etc. Given the pace of change, complexity of business, ever-shifting markets, and escalating expectations (just to name a few), the only sustainable advantage an organization has is its people.

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Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement

Harvard Business Review

You get immediate attention by announcing a program, paying for external or internal advice and training, and setting clear financial targets. If there are continual changes in a company's markets or strategy, that company will most likely need to make productivity improvements part of everyone's job.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

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