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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

Despite its perceived importance, for the most part, companies have a miserable track record when it comes to managing their people. Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up. But what does this mean?

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Five whats and a how – solution-focused method to make team progress

Mike Cardus

AND you need Five Whats and a How to catalyze innovation. When you’re thinking about improvements or a process of things you want to enhance or innovate, generally, you start with defining some of the best hopes you want to achieve. Where are the needs of the project or team? The client brought up to five whys.

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NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Strategic Planning

Mike Cardus

Working with companies and developing strategic plans everyone seems to feel that the default method is a SWOT analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. When we understand the NOISE conditions, we can create a path towards the future that allows the company or team or project to flourish. NOISE Analysis. Flip Chart Paper.

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Favorites of 2012: Team Building & Leadership activities / simulations

Mike Cardus

These variations all focus on creating better teams that are able to work together to solve problems and innovate solutions. NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. A visual progress chart of team project. The project-team uses post-it notes to write the tasks in succinct language. Establishing Team Goals 2×2 Matrix.

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Free Business Plans for Small Business Owners and Start-ups

Strategy Driven

It walks you through getting started, marketing, product, competitive analysis, SWOT, and more, with a window below the input fields to show you the plan as you work away at it. It contains 10 broad sections, including market analysis, management and organization, etc., with a one-paragraph explanation of each.

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The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is critical in a knowledge economy — driving growth, new products, and new methods of delivering value to customers. According to PwC’s 2015 study on Global Innovation , U.S. And yet, despite its importance, innovation is a difficult quality to cultivate both in leaders and in organizations.

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Is Your Business Sinking? 12 Holes You Need To Plug

Strategy Driven

Startups tend to collapse, and only a minor portion of them manage to stay afloat after a few years. But business owners – thanks to their enthusiasm for innovation – ignore the fact that cash-flow can make or break a business. Building on the previous point, spend only on projects that are making your company profitable.

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