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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: A profitable company may be chronically short of cash.

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A Budget Does Not A Strategy Make!

Strategy Driven

Strategic Planning is one of those things that every leadership team claims to do, but, few actually perform. Let’s not forget that there will be a document produced, too. However, when you review the result, you often find that the ‘ strategic plan ‘ is nothing more than a set of long-range goals and an annual budget.

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Leadership & The Expectation Gap

N2Growth Blog

When it comes to leadership, I can share the issue of expectations is no small matter. Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership. Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership.

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Leadership Development on a Tight Budget

Great Leadership By Dan

I was responsible for employee and leadership development for a company that went from 80,000 employees to under 50,000 in the eight years I was there. Share the classic Center for Creative Leadership research that shows the developmental impact of job changes, stretch assignments, and other people compared to formal training programs.

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The Value of Value Chain Analysis in Transforming Your Business

N2Growth Blog

For example, Budgeting and establishing operating procedures could be core activities here; Staff – which contains a collection of core work activities that support staffing activities within a business area. To close, once the value chains are defined for a business, each core business activity should be thoroughly documented.

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Doing Digital Right: Ensuring Alignment of Business Strategy and Transformation Planning

N2Growth Blog

Consequently, the executives gave the planning process lip service – and went about doing their own thing within their respective areas using whatever budget dollars allocated to them to sponsor improvement efforts using digital means. In essence, the spigot was turned off.

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5 Steps To Team Building. It is not team building activities, it is team structure and accountability

Mike Cardus

It is much more exciting to focus on influencing the hearts and minds of people (leadership?)…So In order to achieve what the team is supposed to do the necessary resources are budgeted and readily available. 5: Are Check-ins, Milestones and follow-up expectations known documented and used? What do you think?