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Reasons Why Strategic Plans Fail

Six Disciplines

Incomplete SWOT analysis with respect to the desired objectives. Ineffective attempts to gain the support of others or resistance. Loss of senior management focus and continued sponsorship. Failure to manage change. In general, strategic plans can fail for two types of reasons: inappropriate strategy and poor execution.

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Is Wrong!

CO2

When power is exercised without buy-in from a large percentage of employees, leaders are often surprised and chagrined by the amount and nature of resistance they receive. While Mayer will undoubtedly face some resistance, I don’t imagine a SWOT analysis of Yahoo would unequivocally favor keeping remote workers.

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PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

N2Growth Blog

Throwing out standard process and procedures in favor of a handful of powerful but easily remembered principles for managing strategy will soon begin to show improvements in your business results. Much more than your typical SWOT analysis is needed here to get it right. Here are the five principles that guide Advantage Strategy: #1.

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The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

Every CEO should be cultivating these behaviors to maximize innovative thinking: The most innovative leaders: Manage Risk. Innovative leaders scored 25% higher than their non-innovative counterparts on managing risk. To develop better risk management behaviors, CEOs need to: List a minimum of eight ideas for new initiatives.

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Bullying Is a Confidence Game

Harvard Business Review

And whether you are a young professional seeking out a mentor, an entrepreneur looking for a co-founder, or mid-level employee in search of a superb senior manager, you are vulnerable to the manipulations of workplace bullies. Even if we haven't confided in a bully, they have intuitively, if not explicitly conducted a SWOT analysis.