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How to Shift Your Strategic Focus

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Being explicit about the details of the shift will help you and your team adjust to these changes. Remember that your team’s time and energy is a fixed asset. Market and organizational changes can require you to shift your focus. This can mean temporarily pausing some work to accelerate or add new projects.

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Making Time For Time

Lead Change Blog

Time is a non-renewable resource; a fixed asset. Invest in your team; spend meaningful time with your clients. Be intentional with serving your clients and leading your team with excellence. The trust you place in your team amplifies your leadership, and enables you to lead well. Don’t network— build relationships.

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The Three Decisions You Need to Own

Harvard Business Review

When resources are allocated from the bottom up instead of from the top down, they get out of sync with what the senior team is trying to accomplish. That outcome reflects the wrong allocation and/or ineffective execution.

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Say “No” to Innovation-in-General

Harvard Business Review

The subject was intrapreneurship and it seemed like the organizers had collected an all-star panel; two Googlers, an early Facebooker, one of the recent additions to the Paypal team, and one of the IBM leads on the Watson project. It doesn’t give his team enough to go on. It’s a wide variety of things.

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What It Takes to Be a Great Employer

Harvard Business Review

How crazy is it that companies are willing to invest in preventative maintenance on fixed assets such as their machinery, but typically won't make a comparable investment to enhance and sustain the health and well-being of their employees? Zappos is an example of a company that began with something as prosaic as selling shoes on line.

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When a Country is Facing Political and Human Rights Issues, Should Businesses Leave or Stay?

Harvard Business Review

For a services firm, De Maeseneire said, the calculation is different than for a manufacturer: services firms have fewer fixed assets to look after, and their clients often are fellow multinationals. .” The raison d’etre can also differ per industry. They themselves leave when a crisis strikes.

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Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Business Software

Strategy Driven

Those days are over (for the tech-savvy, at least) and it’s now possible to not only use the cloud to transfer files across greater distances and keep team members updated, but you can also access and edit files from virtually any piece of hardware. You can edit it on your Mac laptop, Windows desktop, Android smartphone or even iOS tablet.