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Learning the Wrong Lesson

Leading Blog

When something bad happens we naturally prefer to process the injustice in a way that makes us coming out as the victim; we are right, they are wrong. In What You''re Really Meant to Do , Robert Kaplan tells the story of a television producer that got passed over for a promotion. Injustices happen. Bad things happen to good people.

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Thoughts on the Presidency

Leading Blog

But then as now, there is no greater attribute for a ruler than humility built on an accurate assessment of his own limits, from which the finest cunning emerges.” β€” Robert Kaplan, Warrior Politics. β€œIn You have to have a team and operate as a team, and any corporation would have a training program to acculturate people.

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Strategy Execution and The Balanced Scorecard

Six Disciplines

Kaplan, one of the original creators of the Balanced Scorecard in 1992. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, or what most think of as "fighting fires.". Strategy forumulation needs to be a continual process - not an annual event.

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. David P. Plan Operations: improve key processes; develop sales plan; plan resource capacity; prepare budgets. Discipline I. Discipline II.

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. David P. Plan Operations: improve key processes; develop sales plan; plan resource capacity; prepare budgets. Discipline I. Discipline II.

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Strategy Execution and The Balanced Scorecard

Six Disciplines

Kaplan, one of the original creators of the Balanced Scorecard. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, or what most think of as "fighting fires.". Strategy forumulation needs to be a continual process - not an annual event.

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How to Avoid the 5 Career Derailers

Leading Blog

Cast relates a conversation he had with Stuart Kaplan, the director of leadership recruiting at Google to make this point: As you progress [in your career], your relationship with others is more important than your knowledge of and relationship with data. In short, they lack interpersonal skills. I’ve got this.” Version 1.0.

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