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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

Despite its perceived importance, for the most part, companies have a miserable track record when it comes to managing their people. Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up. But what does this mean?

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8 Ways You Can Improve Your Strategy & Leadership Skills to Scale Your Business

Joseph Lalonde

While some may know how to create effective strategies, their businesses still fail because of inappropriate leadership. It is necessary to state that many people do not see ineffective leadership as a weakness in their businesses. This article shows eight ways to improve your strategy and leadership skills to scale your business.

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NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Strategic Planning

Mike Cardus

Working with companies and developing strategic plans everyone seems to feel that the default method is a SWOT analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. For example ‘Communication between sales and production’ or ‘More knowledge of how to use our internal knowledge management system’. NOISE Analysis.

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8 Guidelines for Leadership Coaching and Team Building Activities

Mike Cardus

The purpose of these guidelines is to help the (coach / consultant / facilitator) keep their designs based on the teams’ and / or person’s patterns in a modified form and in a different context. (1). Examples of 1 on 1 coaching using activities: 3 Ideas for Time Management and Getting Your Work Organized. Guidelines.

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Favorites of 2012: Team Building & Leadership activities / simulations

Mike Cardus

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/20/12 – Team Building & Leadership Photos. 12/27/12 – Team Building & Leadership activities (simulations). 12/28/12 – Team Building & Leadership Blog Articles. Favorite Team Building & Leadership Activities + Simulations 2012. NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT.

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Should the Strategic Plan Rest in Peace? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Leadership. by John • June 27, 2011 • Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. Involvement of Strategic Planning Consultants. Okay, I don’t want to tar every consultant with the same brush, but generally, consultants take a bunch of company time going through endless analysis. In the CEO Afterlife.

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PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

N2Growth Blog

Throwing out standard process and procedures in favor of a handful of powerful but easily remembered principles for managing strategy will soon begin to show improvements in your business results. Much more than your typical SWOT analysis is needed here to get it right. Here are the five principles that guide Advantage Strategy: #1.

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