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Balancing Strategy and Tactics

Let's Grow Leaders

But we’re gonna start with a conversation about strategy and tactics, because leaders and managers can often struggle with the difference between strategy and tactics or vision and operations. The trail ahead, to the exclusion of the operational and management realities that you face today, that is the ground beneath your feet.

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Creating a Successful Fleet Operation Means Investing in Employees

Strategy Driven

Coconino County has enhanced its Public Works fleet operations by focusing on employee development and establishing new business practices. In addition to 18 employees operating three shops in two locations, the Division also manages two fueling sites and a Parts and Inventory Room. Background. Staffing Challenges and Planned Actions.

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Dream Adjusters: Why Company Leaders Also Have To Be Chief Calibration Officers

Terry Starbucker

I’ve experienced that plenty of times in my career, at one moment preaching about a “BHAG” – the Big, Hairy Audacious Goal – and just a few moments later drilling down and coming to terms on a missed quarterly target) . Unrealistic budgets and operational goals are morale (and job) killers.

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Top Down Leadership Does Work, If You’re Stuck in the Industrial Age

Lead Change Blog

Think about it: what would a company be like without top-down leadership to set goals and priorities, direct resources and operations, plan strategies, and make sure those strategies are being implemented? So it does work. And when this happens, the Achilles Heel of top-down leadership is exposed.

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

Perhaps it starts within your organization, then within your industry? At some point in your career journey, have you started to focus more on status as a leader than the job at hand? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To But what happens when you assemble a group of leaders?

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Culture Counts

Leading Blog

But far more important than heroic reputations are the values these captains of industry personified and instilled within their organizations. When reading the news these days, I sometimes wonder if we have completely forgotten the tenets these titans used to shape American industry.

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The April 2023 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Results Team Building

Although a well-meaning and good-intentioned way to operate, it assumes the receiver will respond as we would. Ever since our industry affixed the word “hybrid” to that old standby, “workforce,” pundits have been touting the term’s similarity to cars, plants and even cross-bred animals. But let’s get real.