Mark Faust Planning is planning and strategy is strategy, but to say that planning strategically, or “strategic planning” is a call of management is a bit of an oxy moron or at least a practice for the moronic. People claiming to be consultants who facilitate strategic planning probably don’t know the most rudimentary aspects of […]
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Mark Van Mourick It seems that we all have a number in mind, it may or may not be realistic, but we like to believe that if we get there, we would have secured our financial future and could retire without worry. For many this “number” seems to be forever out of reach. For some
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Achim Nowak Here is a classic leadership conundrum. They moved you to the C-Suite because you deliver results. They lavished you with praise along the way. And they were right: You are driven to succeed. Heck, you’re a corporate rock star. And then, the moment you get there, they start to turn on you. You
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Logan Stout One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “What’s your secret to success?” This is a loaded question with a formula of answers (hence the reason I wrote Stout Advice: The Secrets to building yourself, people, and teams), so there is no one secret. However, there are three primary elements that must
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Dennis Unkovic Whatever the reason you want to sell your industrial or technology-driven business, don’t be surprised to find the most likely potential buyers are large international companies that specialize in the same general product line or technology that your company does.
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Patrick Alain Communication skills are key to achieving any goal or enabling any process. A leader with great ideas and strong skill is of little or no use if he is unable to communicate his thoughts, opinions and plans to the team following him. Vision, command, innovativeness, bravery and foresight are all indispensable traits of
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Sandra Zimmer The film trailer is arguably the most important marketing tool available to a filmmaker. In business, we also need trailers for marketing our companies. Business trailers are our one-minute introductions, otherwise known as elevator pitches.
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Jeff Gitterman Most classic success stories go something like this: “I had nothing, then discovered a new way of thinking, turned my life around and got everything I ever wanted…” I could tell you one such story. But that’s not really what this is about. I started working in the financial field in 1990. That
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Beverly D. Flaxington I often remind my coaching clients that the reason most companies have a pyramid structure is that not many people are cut out for leading the charge. Unfortunately, very often a person who is politically connected, or who has done a good job and is technically competent, or who has paid their
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Vaughn L. McKoy Mentorship changed my life. It helped me survive the streets and escape the poverty and the seemingly inescapable cycle of drugs, crime, prison and death that traps young people, especially African-American boys. Over the course of 44 years, many men and women have played crucial roles in my development at various stages.
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