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Employees Can’t Align to a Strategy They Don’t Understand
“I used to think you guys were Stupid” This was the comment of a 30+ year employee at one of our client’s plants. It wasn’t until he heard the company’s strategy explained that he realized that what he was being…2 questions to help you calm your organization’s monkey mind
“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” Herbert Simon, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences Our current work environments seem to be on a trajectory of greater and greater distraction with shifting priorities and an explosion of goals,…Are You Ready for Your Strategic Planning?: Part 4: What’s your competitive advantage?
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different. Michael Porter Volvo chose to put a stake in the ground on safety. FedEx became the company everyone knew would get their package wherever it needed to…Are You Ready For Strategic Planning: Part 3 – What is your Vision?
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll We’ve been interviewing C-suite leaders for a white paper on strategy execution. Some of those leaders have…Are You Ready for Your Strategic Planning?: Part 1 – Know Your Customer
“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” Sam Walton How well you know your “one boss” – your customers –…Six principles to improve your leadership decisions
Our decisions help define us as individuals and organizations – our great decisions and our poor ones. You can click here to read our article in Smart Business.How can you allow your employees to be better innovators
In this article, we explore what neuroscience has to say about how we get in the way of innovation. You can click here to read the article.