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Stop Decorating the Fish

Skip Prichard

Former government official and management expert Kristen Cox teamed up with business consultant Yishai Ashlag in the book Stop Decorating the Fish: Which Solutions to Ignore and Which Problems Really Matter. First, these leaders understand that achieving a goal is very different from eliminating a problem. Why is that? More strategy.

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The Homecoming Queen Grows Up (kinda)

Women on Business

But then I wake up and remember that I am a 40-something mom and a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and nobody is going to put a tiara on my head anytime soon (unless it is one of my daughters and we are having a princess tea party). About the author Susan Finerty is a consultant, blogger and aspiring writer.

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Advocacy to Shift Culture

Women on Business

As men and women work together on business focused goals everyone learns. Twenty Five Years as a Partner and Executive at a top ten firm in the accounting and consulting industry provides a foundation for a very practical approach to real business and real business problems. Culture shift is very difficult and ambiguous.

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Why Ability Doesn't Always Lead to Confidence – The Trouble With.

Women on Business

How often have you found yourself avoiding challenges and playing it safe, sticking to goals you knew would be easy for you to reach? In addition to her work as author and co-editor of the highly-regarded academic book The Psychology of Goals (Guilford, 2009), she has authored papers in her field’s most prestigious journals.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). Derek is director and senior advisor at Pathleader Education Consultants, a registered private K-12 institution in Hong Kong. Event details here.

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Still holding on to “life's leg warmers?” What would Jane Fonda.

Women on Business

Business Goals: Goals, like those leg warmers and jelly shoes, go out of style. So toss them away (goals and jelly shoes) and bring your goals up-to-date. You don’t need more than three to five goals to stay on track and move your business to the next level.

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Clout as Strategy and Why Companies Won't Admit It | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. So are goals. Shell, on the other hand, muddies the strategic scope – “global exploration, focused acquisitions, accelerating resources to value, cost efficiency, integrated gas leadership, technology + partnerships, portfolio concentration, selective growth.”

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