It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
Michael Watkins wrote an interesting post “Demystifying Strategy: The What, Who, How, and Why“, he defines business strategy as: “a set of guiding principles that, when communicated and adopted in the organization, generates a desired pattern of decision making….. A good strategy provides a clear roadmap, consisting of a set of guiding principles or rules, [...]
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To be effective it’s necessary for leaders to separate strategy from planning, separating the why and what from the how. This is necessary simply because strategy and planning require two different thinking styles which are not complementary. As highlighted in a post on management-Issues: “Ever been in a strategy meeting where everybody was focusing on [...]
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Setting effective objective to guide your team and organisation is very important for leader to get right. Badly formulated objectives will steer an organisation in the wrong direction. I found this 10 step approach to setting SMART objectives from the National Primary and Care Trust, it’s a great follow-on from my previous post. Sort out [...]
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Nothing happens until we plan and good plans have goals and objectives. Setting goals and objectives correctly provides the necessary context and support required to mange their implementation. Before we dive into the discussion on how to go about setting SMART objectives, it’s necessary to understand that there is an important of distinction between goals [...]
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Here are some good questions, from the American Planning Association, that can be used as a sanity check for your strategic planning process: Does our process produce a plan that’s “real?” Is our plan “strategic?” Do we have adequate external focus? Do we make sufficient use of outsiders? Does our plan really work for the [...]
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