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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

Strategy involves completion of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them.” Because “uncertainty can only be reduced by committed decisions and actions,” you can choose to create a “certainty of purpose and direction.”. In a sense, strategy creates risk.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

1) Analyze your SWOT. SWOT analysis. 10) Eliminate numerical goals for the workforce. Most of the entrepreneurs I had interviewed had successfully moved to having their own business, and best of all, have changed their way of thinking, their way of approaching to uncertainty, to customers, to money. 14 Deming principles.

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