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What’s Behind the Leadership Deficit? My Interview with APQC

Great Leadership By Dan

Given that, every organization needs to put a different emphasis on critical competencies that are needed to achieve their business objectives. It’s a “connect the dots” exercise: Business strategy X requires leadership competencies A, B, C, and D. In practice, it’s not that easy.

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The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Strategy Driven

Running a bureaucracy. 7 Stages in Making a Case for Business Funding: Link to a strategic business objective. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Maintaining the status quo. Keeping things churning. Add value via internal services. Take ownership of your values.