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The Big Picture of Business – Visioning Scope: Applying Vision Toward Your Organization’s Progress

Strategy Driven

It is a catalyst toward long-term evaluation, planning and implementation. Crystallize the core business in terms of viabilities to move successfully forward to some discernible point. Clarify management values. Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement. If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Thanks for sharing Todd.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Long-term investments plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Business development. Design and re-engineering of products-services.

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The Big Picture of Business – Ethics… Good for Business

Strategy Driven

Unethical dealings for short-term gain do not pay off in the long-run. We must learn to benefit from change management, not to become victims of it. Corporate Responsibility relates to every stage in the evolution of a business, leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of doing business.

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Mentoring and Lifelong Learning

Strategy Driven

I have had many excellent ones in my long career and have in turn mentored hundreds of others. The sharing of trust and ideas leads to developing business philosophies. You must establish your own identity, which is a long, exacting process. Long-term success must be earned. The mentor opens doors for the mentee.

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The Big Picture of Business – Entrepreneurs’ Guideposts to Real Business Success

Strategy Driven

Business relationships with customers, collaborators and other professionals are established to be long-term in duration. There are no fast-forward buttons or skipping steps inn developing an effective organization, just as there are no shortcuts in formulating a career and Body of Work.

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

Planning, tactics, organizational development. Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. Business Development. You develop-champion the tools to change.