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Guest Blogger George L. Morrisey: Are You Ready for Strategic Planning?

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Do we have the necessary resources, knowledge, skill, and attitudes to successfully develop a strategic plan within the desired time frame? Like other management processes, strat­egic planning must be organized, communicated, and implemented systemati­cally. What do we need to do dif­ferently this time?

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How PwC and The Washington Post Are Finding and Hiring External Talent

Harvard Business Review

As the use of external talent increases, so does the need for more efficient ways to find, hire, and manage contingent workers as well as integrate them into the company’s full-time employees and teams. This online platform provides skilled independent professionals direct access to PwC teams seeking talent for their projects.

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Your Company Needs Independent Workers

Harvard Business Review

But this is a growing population of workers, many of whom are highly skilled. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. Attracting, retaining, and managing these highly skilled workers will require new ways of thinking about talent management and the role that external talent plays.

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There’s No One System for Paying Your Global Sales Force

Harvard Business Review

It provides control over sales incentive spending around the world, and it simplifies plan management and administration.” Performance Metrics: Pay on revenues (timing determined locally) for individual (not team) performance; pay incentives rarely for management by objective (MBO) achievement (e.g.

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning.

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