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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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Employee empowerment and motivation are board level (strategic) issues

Chartered Management Institute

This is why issues like individual empowerment and employee motivation must find their way during strategy development and formulation at the board level as later ‘adjustments’ by middle and line management during the execution phase fall more under ‘fire-fighting’. Early Warning. You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. I think it was the graphic design of the book that first caught my eye. I could see there was something new about this book and how the authors thought about business models.

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Free Business Plans for Small Business Owners and Start-ups

Strategy Driven

The $100 Startup, the website for the best-selling book of the same name, has a ton of stripped-down resources for entrepreneurs, including a super simplified business plan template. It contains 10 broad sections, including market analysis, management and organization, etc., Invoiceberry Templates for Word, Open Office, Excel, or PPT.

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A 6-Part Tool for Ranking and Assessing Risks

Harvard Business Review

One of us, Luke, is so enthusiastic about CARVER that he cowrote a book on it.). More recently, CARVER has converted a new community of believers in the business world, including CEOs, financial analysts, and risk management planners, not to mention any number of Fortune 500 security directors.

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The Top Tips for Building Team Performance

Roundtable Talk

the losers that were at the bottom of the heap).

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Prioritize Your Opportunities with This Checklist

Harvard Business Review

The world is replete with SWOT mechanisms for evaluating a prospective new product offering, as well as opportunity assessment templates for evaluating a project against overall business goals, customer impact, strategic potential, and competitive urgency. Author a book? Photo by Cris Dinoto. How do you evaluate a business opportunity?