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Are You Aware Of The 3 Approaches to Strategic Planning?

The Empowered Buisness

Your business has very limited resources in terms of people, time and money to devote to a more comprehensive strategic planning process. You expect or foresee major changes in the internal and/or external environment of your business sector over the next year or so. Systems Focused Approach to Strategic Planning.

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How Structured Debate Helps Your Team Grow

Harvard Business Review

Once a team has reached, or appears to have reached, a consensus, it can be very hard for any individual to challenge the group’s interpretation of reality or predictions about the future — or to push back on what the group plans to do (or not do) — without running the risk of being perceived as a heretic or becoming a scapegoat.

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The Great Repeatable Leader

Harvard Business Review

What emerged was a consensus that t he most successful leaders in the future will be those who - like Nelson - can cut their distance to the front line through three key traits: the ability to be authentic, empathy with the customer and front line, and true self-awareness. But only 8% of their customers agree.

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Baloney, or the Power of a Common Language

Harvard Business Review

It needs to figure out its business model before it raises more money.". In the late 1990s, I went out to Intel about twenty times, educating about one hundred managers at a time on the principles and language of disruptive innovation. That's utter baloney," I responded. The company is already in market and earning revenue.

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Creative Destruction Visits the Legal Profession

Harvard Business Review

The other half might have been open to the idea that law firms needed a strategy, but completely opposed to having anything other than a consensus-built, senior partner-friendly mechanism for making strategic choices, which almost by definition is doomed to fail. Just keep billing those hours! Well, we did warn them.

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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

Companies fall into the Jordan fallacy when they ask their very best operators, who are skilled at executing a known business model, to transform overnight into entrepreneurs who are skilled at searching for an unknown business model. Be prepared for lean''s consequences.

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How One Company Made Its Analytics Investment Pay Off

Harvard Business Review

In the age of rapid advances in data science and artificial intelligence, many organizations still struggle to incorporate advanced analytics capabilities into their business models. True incorporation requires bold decisions about reorganizing the business to make analytics a key component of strategy. David Malan/Getty Images.