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The What, Who, How and Why of Strategy…..

19 June 2008

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, that [...]

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10 Steps to Setting SMART objectives

15 October 2006

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.

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Setting SMART Objectives

11 March 2006

Nothing happens until we plan and good plans have goals and objectives. Setting goals and objectives correctly provides the necessary support and aids in there achievement. Before we dive into how to go about setting SMART objectives, it’s important to understand that there is a world of difference between goals and objectives.

Goals relate to our [...]

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A Better Scheme for Strategic Planning

25 February 2006

I read an interesting article on Business Week on strategic planning which really resonated with me. The article challenges the effectiveness of the traditional lengthy, top-down strategic planning process given that the,
“formal strategic planning became popular first with big companies in the 1960s, after a decade characterized by stable interest rates, predictable (and primarily domestic) [...]

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