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Improve Your Planning Effectiveness by Doing Less
Why is planning so often avoided? Even when it is done it’s often ineffective. More often than not I run into businesses without a plan for where they’re going. In many cases they’re smaller organizations, but it’s certainly not limited … Continue reading
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Inspiring the Vision
There’s a story I like to tell to communicate the value of having a clear and articulated vision in a company. I ask my audience to imagine they’re in a contest to complete a jigsaw puzzle. There are two teams, … Continue reading
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Rethinking Servant Leadership
It seems these days the wires aren’t as hot with servant leadership articles and blogs as they were just a couple years ago. In one way I’m OK with that. In another I’m not. I don’t like it when good … Continue reading
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Climbing to New Heights – Acheiving “Nearly Impossible” Goals
Michelangelo said “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our goal is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” Such is the case with many strategic planning processes. … Continue reading
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4 Pitfalls to Avoid When Planning
One of my favorite authors and management gurus, Peter Drucker, once said “The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.” Businesses left to natural devolution will move from order to disorder, from performing … Continue reading
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Tagged alignment, business planning, change, change leadership, change management, culture, execution, foxwood, foxwood associates, Goal Setting, greg gauthier, leadership competency, leadership development, leading change, management, michael fabich, mike fabich, strategic planning, Strategy, turnaround
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