Raise your hand if you were alive on November 22, 1963.
I recently posed this question to a conference room of 30 senior executives and board members. We were in the opening section of a jam-packed....
Raise your hand if you were alive on November 22, 1963.
I recently posed this question to a conference room of 30 senior executives and board members. We were in the opening section of a jam-packed....
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As the fiscal year ends, the planning teams wrap up the annual planning and distribute next year’s budgets. Ideally, this would be a time of excitement as each new year brings new challenges and new....
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“It just sucks. Every year we try to make improvements, and it gets better, but it still sucks.”
This is a sentiment expressed by the CEO of a successful and fast-growth technology company on a....
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In the recent Harvard Business Review article, Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business, authors Michael Harris and Bill Tayler explore this question by taking a close look at how Wells Fargo’s....
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A constant in strategic management is the need to respond quickly to perceived threats or potential opportunities. More than ever before, the speed of decision-making is as important as the decision....
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Data is front and center in today’s management team meetings. Executives report spending more and more time pouring over their dashboards and analyzing variances from performance targets. They now....
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I like rabbits and I love ideas, but too many of either and you have a problem. Managers consistently....
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A slower pace, time to reconnect with friends and family, spending more time out of doors, or finally setting off on a trip months in the planning; these are all hallmarks of the summer months.
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Strategic thinking can and does happen every day, but it is rarely adequately optimized. Here is why.
Strategic thinking requires a shift in mindset from the problem-solving, now-oriented skills....
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Leading a project, team, or company can feel all-consuming. There is so much time and attention taken by planning and managing that the equally important role of communicating is given short shrift.....
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