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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. For this to happen companies need to invest in closing the Strategy Execution Skills Gap.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/29/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, [.].

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Mindfulness as a Management Technique Goes Back to at Least the 1970s

Harvard Business Review

Mindfulness is now seen as a crucial skill in business. It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. The rise of mindfulness is unquestionably a positive development. Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn / EyeEm/Getty Images.

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How to Finance the Scale-Up of Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Public funders — the various state economic development agencies — don’t care about opportunities in the abstract, either, but about opportunities that create jobs, particularly where unemployment is raging. Vaunted valley VC, Eugene Kleiner said it well: “ The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed round.”