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Strategic Planning Alternatives: Mission Discernment

LDRLB

My colleague Dr. Gordon Self has developed a Mission Discernment Tool for use within Covenant Health (Disclaimer: I also work for Covenant Health). Rather, it is for organization-altering decisions such as: Do we expand into this market? But how exactly does one ‘discern’ the mission? Do we lay-off part of our workforce?

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Strategic Planning Alternatives: Mission Discernment

LDRLB

My colleague Dr. Gordon Self has developed a Mission Discernment Tool for use within Covenant Health (Disclaimer: I also work for Covenant Health). Rather, it is for organization-altering decisions such as: Do we expand into this market? But how exactly does one ‘discern’ the mission? Do we lay-off part of our workforce?

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership. Small and large companies alike are experimenting with these concepts.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank. Steve Schulze, CEO Nekter Juice bar. Hernan Botbol, CEO Taringa.

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