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Are You Aware Of The 3 Approaches to Strategic Planning?

The Empowered Buisness

You expect or foresee major changes in the internal and/or external environment of your business sector over the next year or so. Your management team struggles to identify and reach consensus on key issues and clear goals for the future. The resulting strategies are viewed as the highest-level organizing principles for the business.

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Founding a Company Doesn’t Have to be a Big Career Risk

Harvard Business Review

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world.

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The Great Repeatable Leader

Harvard Business Review

It was led people by who have devoted their career to this topic and included Daniel Goleman, coiner of the term "emotional intelligence." We have just completed a three year study at Bain & Company that identified the "design principles" of businesses that outperform and out-adapt their rivals.

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Jack Griffin's Ouster: Lessons from a Failed "Change Agent"

Harvard Business Review

That's become a common label , especially in an era when so many traditional business models need rethinking, but run a Google search on it and you will begin to appreciate the special challenges it creates. career: Avoid the term "change agent."

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images. The United States spends 40% more per patient than other developed countries but suffers the worse overall health outcomes. Proactive and population-based.