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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

Because “uncertainty can only be reduced by committed decisions and actions,” you can choose to create a “certainty of purpose and direction.”. “Strategy involves completion of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them.” It is worth as much as the rest of the book.

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Salty to Sweet: The Transformation of Mount Franklin Foods

Change Starts Here

Using the Balanced Scorecard methodology, the team developed a one-page strategy map, which detailed the objectives the team was trying to achieve and showed how they were connected. They also created a scorecard to measure their performance against each objective.

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Effective Meeting Models

CO2

This annual strategic review and planning meeting may take as long as a week (because you will be pre-deciding how to act should certain key assumptions come to pass), but when done well it leads to a more purposeful and energized commitment to the future. People won’t lose sight of the destination midway through the year.

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Your Employees Are Not Mind Readers

Harvard Business Review

By seeking and valuing their perceptions, you increase their commitment, confidence, and the likelihood of getting traction when it is time to execute. Declare Yourself — and Live By Your Commitments. You need to own a commitment to completion; you have to live with the consequences. every minute of every day.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

Next, Cadence Health (now Northwestern Memorial Hospital) approached us with the idea of setting up an endovascular neuroradiology laboratory, led by their star physician, who committed to being on site at Silver Cross. For the foreseeable future, our independent community hospital will retain its commitment to the partnership model.

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Work-Family Guilt Is Wasted Energy

Harvard Business Review

In countries without policies that facilitate conciliation, managers overwhelmingly think that women "choose" family commitments over work. Today, most companies are still far from any level of balance at this level. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard. Couples — Personal Priorities.

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Communication Strategy in 13 Steps – Communicating Strategic Plan To Employees

CO2

If you use a Balance Scorecard model take employees through the basics so that they can understand the meaning behind what you are about to explain to them. Dow Corning uses a matrix that focuses on Intellectual Understanding and Emotional Commitment of their employees. Explain any new terms or definition of terms.