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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

You might call this a North Star tactic , calling on people in an organization to habitually look up from daily minutiae to reorient themselves to their ultimate destination.”. “They avoided distractions of the moment by returning like a broken record to their original rationale for believing in the stock.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Section IV: Tactics. Great leaders tend to be tactical geniuses and display a strong bias to action. They are voracious learners always looking for better methods, different approaches, enhanced efficiencies, better technology and increased velocity. They understand the difference between raw data and useful information.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Future Has Moved… and Left No Forwarding Address.

Strategy Driven

It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments. ” Will Rogers. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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Make Strategic Thinking Part of Your Job

Harvard Business Review

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” ” He also cites Roger Martin’s research , which found that 43% of managers cannot state their own strategy.

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A Process for Empathetic Product Design

Harvard Business Review

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. While it’s not too difficult to rally people around this general idea, it can be hard at first to understand how to translate it into tactics.

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The Big Picture of Business – Developing The Talent for Business to Succeed

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Push paper, systems, technology. Science-Technology Provider. ” Will Rogers said, “Mr. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree. They meet quotas, schedules, procedures and statistics. They keep the boat afloat.