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The Big Picture of Business – How Business Advice Turns Into Company Strategy

Strategy Driven

Strategy : planning, tactics, organizational development. What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing. Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Firms which package and market services. Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth.

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How to Develop a Radical Product Thinking Mindset

Skip Prichard

We’ve learned to build products and scale our companies by testing things in the market, seeing what works, and iterating. Vision statements that proclaimed the company’s aspirations “to be number 1 or number 2 in every market”, or “to be the leader in <insert industry jargon here>” were touted as being visionary.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 6 of 7

Strategy Driven

Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7.

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Are You A Strategy Driven Storyteller?

Strategy Driven

Posted by Elinor Stutz on December 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment Marketing professionals refer to strategy as your unique selling proposition while sales folk use the term ‘positioning.’ How do you overcome simplicity in favor of bureaucracy? Yet our competitive companies would boast they required no red tape at all.

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How to Stop People Who Bog Things Down with Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Our research on the founder’s mentality suggests that energy vampires and the bureaucracies that spawn them are among the main reasons why many companies lose speed and their sense of mission as they grow. One tactic: Make sure the next 10 hero stories you tell are about doers, about the front line, about those who execute.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Crises can have many liabilities upon companies, including loss of profits and market share. by Hank Moore. What Causes Crises.

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

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Running a bureaucracy. by Hank Moore.