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How to Solve Complex Problems Fast

Skip Prichard

Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex. 1] Defined in HBR’s Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It (Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull, MARCH 2015). 10 Steps to Solving Complexity.

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Explain Your New Strategy By Emphasizing What It Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

Yet, according to Donald Sull’s research in the March issue of HBR, almost half of top executives cannot connect the dots between their company’s strategic priorities; and two out of three middle managers say they simply do not understand their strategic direction. This isn’t just about trimming your list of projects.

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Before You Agree to Take on New Work, Ask 3 Questions

Harvard Business Review

” Donald Sull and Dominic Houlder suggest creating a worksheet with four columns. We all take on projects and commitments for the wrong reasons, because we don’t think we can say no, at the expense of our values. In “Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions?” You are the architect of your life.

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